How To Install imaprowl on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imaprowl on Debian 9.
What is imaprowl
imaprowl is:
Prowl is a service and an App for iPhone’s Push Notification service.(APNs) see http://prowl.weks.net/ for more about Prowl.
IMAProwl is an utility script to notify new mail of IMAP server with Prowl service. It’s very useful to push notification of GMail or any other IMAP mail service to your iPhone.
This program uses IMAP/IDLE(RFC2177) or IMAP/NOOP to check the new mail on IMAP server and uses Prowl Public API via HTTPS.
There are three methods to install imaprowl 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 imaprowl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install imaprowl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imaprowl
Install imaprowl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imaprowl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imaprowl
Install imaprowl 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 imaprowl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imaprowl
How To Uninstall imaprowl on Debian 9
To uninstall only the imaprowl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imaprowl
Uninstall imaprowl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imaprowl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imaprowl
Remove imaprowl Configurations and Data
To remove imaprowl configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imaprowl
Remove imaprowl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imaprowl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imaprowl
Dependencies
imaprowl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imaprowl package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.