How To Install claws-mail-libravatar on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install claws-mail-libravatar on Kali Linux.
What is claws-mail-libravatar
claws-mail-libravatar is:
This plugin for the Claws Mail mailer allows retrieval of profile images from libravatar servers, either federated servers (running on sender’s domain) or the main libravatar.org server.
Currently supports all default missing icon modes on libravatar.org service, and makes extensive use of disk caching to minimize the number of network requests.
Nevertheless, it may add several network requests per message, so if you’re on a high latency network you may experience some delay displaying messages.
There are three methods to install claws-mail-libravatar 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 claws-mail-libravatar Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-libravatar using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install claws-mail-libravatarInstall claws-mail-libravatar Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-libravatar using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install claws-mail-libravatarInstall claws-mail-libravatar 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-libravatar using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install claws-mail-libravatarHow To Uninstall claws-mail-libravatar on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the claws-mail-libravatar package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove claws-mail-libravatarUninstall claws-mail-libravatar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall claws-mail-libravatar and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove claws-mail-libravatarRemove claws-mail-libravatar Configurations and Data
To remove claws-mail-libravatar configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge claws-mail-libravatarRemove claws-mail-libravatar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove claws-mail-libravatar configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge claws-mail-libravatarDependencies
claws-mail-libravatar have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install claws-mail-libravatar package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.