How To Install courier-doc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install courier-doc on Kali Linux.

What is courier-doc

courier-doc 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 contains additional documentation for Courier.

There are three methods to install courier-doc 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-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install courier-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install courier-doc

Install courier-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install courier-doc

Install courier-doc 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 courier-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install courier-doc

How To Uninstall courier-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the courier-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove courier-doc

Uninstall courier-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove courier-doc

Remove courier-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge courier-doc

Remove courier-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge courier-doc

Dependencies

courier-doc have the following dependencies:

References

• courier-doc website

Summary

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