How To Install gosa-plugin-mailaddress on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gosa-plugin-mailaddress on Kali Linux.

What is gosa-plugin-mailaddress

gosa-plugin-mailaddress is:

This plugin is a very light-weighted version of the GOsa? mail plugin. Whereas gosa-plugin-mail can be used to manage a complete mail server farm, this tiny plugin only provides means to modify the user’s mail address via a text field.

This plugin is useful for people that need to maintain users’ email addresses via GOsa?, but do not run their own mailserver(s).

GOsa? is a combination of system-administrator and end-user web interface, designed to handle LDAP based setups.

There are three methods to install gosa-plugin-mailaddress 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 gosa-plugin-mailaddress Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gosa-plugin-mailaddress

Install gosa-plugin-mailaddress Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gosa-plugin-mailaddress using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gosa-plugin-mailaddress

Install gosa-plugin-mailaddress 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 gosa-plugin-mailaddress using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gosa-plugin-mailaddress

How To Uninstall gosa-plugin-mailaddress on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the gosa-plugin-mailaddress package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gosa-plugin-mailaddress

Uninstall gosa-plugin-mailaddress And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gosa-plugin-mailaddress

Remove gosa-plugin-mailaddress Configurations and Data

To remove gosa-plugin-mailaddress configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gosa-plugin-mailaddress

Remove gosa-plugin-mailaddress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gosa-plugin-mailaddress configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gosa-plugin-mailaddress

Dependencies

gosa-plugin-mailaddress have the following dependencies:

• gosa

References

• gosa-plugin-mailaddress website

Summary

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