How To Install couriergraph on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install couriergraph on Kali Linux.

What is couriergraph

couriergraph is:

Couriergraph is a very simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Courier-POP & Courier-IMAP that produces daily, weekly, monthly and yearly graphs of mail server’s activity (logins, traffic, etc).

There are three methods to install couriergraph 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 couriergraph Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install couriergraph

Install couriergraph Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install couriergraph using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install couriergraph

Install couriergraph 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 couriergraph using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install couriergraph

How To Uninstall couriergraph on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the couriergraph package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove couriergraph

Uninstall couriergraph And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove couriergraph

Remove couriergraph Configurations and Data

To remove couriergraph configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge couriergraph

Remove couriergraph configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge couriergraph

Dependencies

couriergraph have the following dependencies:

• debconf
• libfile-tail-perl
• librrds-perl

References

• couriergraph website

Summary

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