How To Install ifile on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifile on Debian 10.
What is ifile
ifile is:
A text filter that uses machine learning to classify texts into groups. ifile works great as a spam filter. The text is classified by a simple statistical method called Naive Bayes, which basically considers each text an unordered collection of words and classifies by matching the distribution with the most closely matching group distribution. Alternatives to ifile are annoyance-filter, bogofilter, spamoracle, and spamprobe.
There are three methods to install ifile on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ifile Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ifile using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ifile
Install ifile Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ifile using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ifile
Install ifile 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 ifile using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ifile
How To Uninstall ifile on Debian 10
To uninstall only the ifile package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ifile
Uninstall ifile And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ifile and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ifile
Remove ifile Configurations and Data
To remove ifile configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ifile
Remove ifile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ifile configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ifile
Dependencies
ifile have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifile package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.