How To Install bogofilter-tokyocabinet on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-tokyocabinet on Kali Linux. bogofilter-tokyocabinet is fast Bayesian spam filter (tokyocabinet)

Introduction

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

What is bogofilter-tokyocabinet

bogofilter-tokyocabinet 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 tokyocabinet backend.

There are three methods to install bogofilter-tokyocabinet 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-tokyocabinet 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-tokyocabinet using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bogofilter-tokyocabinet

Install bogofilter-tokyocabinet Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bogofilter-tokyocabinet

Install bogofilter-tokyocabinet 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-tokyocabinet using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bogofilter-tokyocabinet

How To Uninstall bogofilter-tokyocabinet on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove bogofilter-tokyocabinet

Uninstall bogofilter-tokyocabinet And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bogofilter-tokyocabinet and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bogofilter-tokyocabinet

Remove bogofilter-tokyocabinet Configurations and Data

To remove bogofilter-tokyocabinet configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bogofilter-tokyocabinet

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

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

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

Dependencies

bogofilter-tokyocabinet have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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