How To Install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin on Debian 9.
What is claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin
claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin is:
The vCalendar plugin for Claws Mail provides vCalendar message handling (the meeting subset of the vCalendar format), displaying such mails in a nice format, letting you create and send meetings, and creating a virtual folder with the meetings you sent or received.
The functionality is similar to the one provided by Evolution for that mails.
There are three methods to install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin on Debian 9. 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-vcalendar-plugin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin
Install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin
Install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin
How To Uninstall claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin on Debian 9
To uninstall only the claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin
Uninstall claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin
Remove claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin Configurations and Data
To remove claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin
Remove claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin
Dependencies
claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcurl3-gnutls
- libdb5.3
- libetpan17
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnutls30
- libgtk2.0-0
- liblockfile1
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libsasl2-2
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install claws-mail-vcalendar-plugin package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.