How To Install courier-base on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-base
on Kali Linux.
What is courier-base
courier-base is:
The Courier mail transfer agent (MTA) is an integrated mail/groupware server based on open commodity protocols, such as ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, LDAP, TLS, and HTTP. Courier provides ESMTP, IMAP, POP3, webmail, and mailing list services within a single, consistent, framework.
This package provides the functionality needed by all courier packages such as some configuration files, helper programs and the Courier TCP server daemon.
Courier uses the a TLS wrapper application named couriertls instead of embedding TLS support in the different applications. Additionally, this package contains a default set of trusted X.509 root CA certs.
There are three methods to install courier-base
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 courier-base Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install courier-base
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install courier-base Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install courier-base
using apt
by running the following command:
Install courier-base 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.
After updating apt database, We can install courier-base
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall courier-base on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the courier-base
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall courier-base And Its Dependencies
To uninstall courier-base
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove courier-base Configurations and Data
To remove courier-base
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove courier-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove courier-base
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
courier-base have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- courier-authdaemon
- courier-authlib
- courier-authlib-userdb
- debconf
- gnutls-bin
- lsb-base
- sysvinit-utils
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-base
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.