How To Install dovecot-lucene on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-lucene on Debian 9.

What is dovecot-lucene

dovecot-lucene is:

Dovecot is a mail server whose major goals are security and extreme reliability. It tries very hard to handle all error conditions and verify that all data is valid, making it nearly impossible to crash. It supports mbox/Maildir and its own dbox/mdbox formats, and should also be pretty fast, extensible, and portable.

This package provides Lucene full text search support for Dovecot.

There are three methods to install dovecot-lucene 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 dovecot-lucene Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dovecot-lucene

Install dovecot-lucene Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dovecot-lucene

Install dovecot-lucene 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 dovecot-lucene using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dovecot-lucene

How To Uninstall dovecot-lucene on Debian 9

To uninstall only the dovecot-lucene package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dovecot-lucene

Uninstall dovecot-lucene And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dovecot-lucene and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dovecot-lucene

Remove dovecot-lucene Configurations and Data

To remove dovecot-lucene configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dovecot-lucene

Remove dovecot-lucene configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dovecot-lucene

Dependencies

dovecot-lucene have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libclucene-core1v5
• libexttextcat-2.0-0
• libgcc1

References

• dovecot-lucene website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-lucene package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.