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:
References
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.