How To Install bogofilter-common on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-common on Debian 11.
What is bogofilter-common
bogofilter-common is:
This package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article “A Plan For Spam”.
This version substantially improves on Paul’s proposal by doing smarter lexical analysis. In particular, hostnames and IP addresses are retained as recognition features rather than broken up. Various kinds of MTA cruft such as dates and message-IDs are discarded so as not to bloat the word lists.
This package provides files that are common for all database backends.
There are three methods to install bogofilter-common on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bogofilter-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bogofilter-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bogofilter-common
Install bogofilter-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bogofilter-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bogofilter-common
Install bogofilter-common 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 bogofilter-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bogofilter-common
How To Uninstall bogofilter-common on Debian 11
To uninstall only the bogofilter-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bogofilter-common
Uninstall bogofilter-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bogofilter-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bogofilter-common
Remove bogofilter-common Configurations and Data
To remove bogofilter-common configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bogofilter-common
Remove bogofilter-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bogofilter-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bogofilter-common
Dependencies
bogofilter-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-common package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.