How To Install email-reminder on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install email-reminder on Kali Linux.
What is email-reminder
email-reminder is:
Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email. Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries and yearly events. Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and/or a few days beforehand.
This package includes the cron job that checks for events and send reminders once a daily.
Make sure you install the anacron package if your computer is turned off at night or the reminders will never get sent.
There are three methods to install email-reminder 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 email-reminder Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install email-reminder using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install email-reminderInstall email-reminder Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install email-reminder using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install email-reminderInstall email-reminder 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install email-reminder using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install email-reminderHow To Uninstall email-reminder on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the email-reminder package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove email-reminderUninstall email-reminder And Its Dependencies
To uninstall email-reminder and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove email-reminderRemove email-reminder Configurations and Data
To remove email-reminder configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge email-reminderRemove email-reminder configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove email-reminder configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge email-reminderDependencies
email-reminder have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- cron
- debconf
- libdate-manip-perl
- libemail-valid-perl
- libxml-dom-perl
- python3-defusedxml
- python3-pyside2.qtcore
- python3-pyside2.qtgui
- python3-pyside2.qtwidgets
- debconf
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install email-reminder package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
