How To Install bogofilter on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter
on Kali Linux.
What is bogofilter
bogofilter 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.
There are three methods to install bogofilter
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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bogofilter
Install bogofilter Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bogofilter
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bogofilter
Install bogofilter 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bogofilter
How To Uninstall bogofilter on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the bogofilter
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bogofilter
Uninstall bogofilter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bogofilter
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bogofilter
Remove bogofilter Configurations and Data
To remove bogofilter
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bogofilter
Remove bogofilter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bogofilter
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bogofilter
Dependencies
bogofilter have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.