How To Install balsa on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install balsa on Debian 10.
What is balsa
balsa is:
Balsa is a highly configurable and robust mail client for the GNOME desktop. It supports both POP3 and IMAP servers as well as the mbox, maildir and mh local mailbox formats. Balsa also supports SMTP and/or the use of a local MTA such as Sendmail.
Some of Balsa’s other features include:
- Allowing nested mailboxes
- Printing
- Spell Checking
- Multi-threaded mail retrieval
- MIME support (view images inline, save parts)
- GPE Palmtop, LDAP, LDIF and vCard address book support
- Multiple character sets for composing and reading messages
- File attachments on outgoing messages
- GPG/OpenPGP mail signing and encryption
Support for Kerberos and SSL has been enabled in this package.
There are three methods to install balsa on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install balsa Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install balsa using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install balsa
Install balsa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install balsa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install balsa
Install balsa Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install balsa using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install balsa
How To Uninstall balsa on Debian 10
To uninstall only the balsa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove balsa
Uninstall balsa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall balsa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove balsa
Remove balsa Configurations and Data
To remove balsa configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge balsa
Remove balsa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove balsa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge balsa
Dependencies
balsa have the following dependencies:
- pinentry-gnome3
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcanberra-gtk3-0
- libcanberra0
- libcompfaceg1
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgmime-2.6-0
- libgnutls30
- libgpgme11
- libgspell-1-1
- libgssapi-krb5-2
- libgtk-3-0
- libgtksourceview-3.0-1
- libldap-2.4-2
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libsecret-1-0
- libsqlite3-0
- libssl1.1
- libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
- libxml2
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install balsa package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.