How To Install bogofilter-sqlite on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-sqlite on Ubuntu 20.04. bogofilter-sqlite is fast Bayesian spam filter (sqlite)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-sqlite on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is bogofilter-sqlite

bogofilter-sqlite 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 the sqlite database backend.

There are three methods to install bogofilter-sqlite on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-sqlite 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-sqlite using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bogofilter-sqlite

Install bogofilter-sqlite Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bogofilter-sqlite using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bogofilter-sqlite

Install bogofilter-sqlite 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install bogofilter-sqlite using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bogofilter-sqlite

How To Uninstall bogofilter-sqlite on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the bogofilter-sqlite package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bogofilter-sqlite

Uninstall bogofilter-sqlite And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bogofilter-sqlite and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bogofilter-sqlite

Remove bogofilter-sqlite Configurations and Data

To remove bogofilter-sqlite configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bogofilter-sqlite

Remove bogofilter-sqlite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bogofilter-sqlite configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bogofilter-sqlite

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-sqlite package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.