How To Install bogofilter-common on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-common on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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

• bogofilter-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.