How To Install fastforward on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is fastforward

fastforward is:

It can create forwarding databases from a sendmail-style /etc/aliases or from user-oriented virtual-domain tables.

fastforward supports external mailing lists, stored in a binary format for fast access. It has a tool to convert sendmail-style include files into binary lists.

fastforward is more reliable than sendmail. sendmail can’t deal with long aliases, or deeply nested aliases, or deeply nested include files; fastforward has no limits other than memory. sendmail can produce corrupted alias files if the system crashes; fastforward is crashproof.

fastforward’s database-building tools are much faster than sendmail’s newaliases. Even better, fastforward deliveries don’t pause while the database is being rebuilt.

fastforward does not support insecure sendmail-style program deliveries from include files; you can use qmail’s secure built-in mechanisms instead. fastforward does support program deliveries from /etc/aliases.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fastforward

Install fastforward Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fastforward

Install fastforward 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 fastforward using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fastforward

How To Uninstall fastforward on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fastforward

Uninstall fastforward And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fastforward

Remove fastforward Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fastforward

Remove fastforward configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fastforward

Dependencies

fastforward have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• fastforward website

Summary

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