How To Install gross on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gross
on Debian 9.
What is gross
gross is:
Gross is a resource efficient greylist server written in C that supports greylisting and/or blocking based on DNSRBL so it will not impact legitimate mails
It also contains a milter implementation and natively supports Postfix, Exim and Sendmail.
There are three methods to install gross
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 gross Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gross
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gross
Install gross Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gross
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gross
Install gross 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 gross
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gross
How To Uninstall gross on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gross
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gross
Uninstall gross And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gross
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gross
Remove gross Configurations and Data
To remove gross
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gross
Remove gross configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gross
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gross
Dependencies
gross have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gross
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.