How To Install ifile on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

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 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 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 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 ifile using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ifile

How To Uninstall ifile on Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ifile

Remove ifile Configurations and Data

To remove ifile configuration and data from Kali Linux 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:

• libc6

References

• ifile website

Summary

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