How To Install lbdb on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lbdb on Debian 12.
What is lbdb
lbdb is:
This package consists of a set of small tools, which collect mail addresses from several sources and offer these addresses to the mutt external query feature. At the moment the following modules are supported:
- m_finger (uses the finger(1) command; needs finger package)
- m_inmail (scans incoming mail for addresses)
- m_passwd (searches /etc/passwd)
- m_yppasswd (searches the YP password database)
- m_nispasswd (searches the NIS password database)
- m_getent (searches the configured password database)
- m_pgp2, m_pgp5, m_gpg (searches your PGP or GnuPG keyrings)
- m_fido (searches the Fidonet nodelist)
- m_abook (uses the address book application abook; needs abook package)
- m_goobook (uses goobook to read Google contacts; needs goobook package)
- m_addr_email (uses addr-email from the addressbook Tk program)
- m_muttalias (searches your Mutt mail aliases)
- m_pine (searches your Pine addressbook files)
- m_wanderlust (search the WanderLust alias database)
- m_palm (uses your Palm database; needs libpalm-perl package)
- m_gnomecard (uses GnomeCard database files)
- m_ldap (query some LDAP server; needs libauthen-sasl-perl, libauthen-sasl-perl, and libnet-ldap-perl packages)
- m_evolution (search in the Evolution addressbook)
- m_vcf (search in vcard files using libvformat)
- m_khard (search a CardDAV address book via khard; needs khard package)
- m_mu (search maidir-utils using mu-cfind; needs maildir-utils package)
There are three methods to install lbdb on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lbdb Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lbdb using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lbdb
Install lbdb Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lbdb using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lbdb
Install lbdb 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 lbdb using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lbdb
How To Uninstall lbdb on Debian 12
To uninstall only the lbdb package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lbdb
Uninstall lbdb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lbdb and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lbdb
Remove lbdb Configurations and Data
To remove lbdb configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lbdb
Remove lbdb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lbdb configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lbdb
Dependencies
lbdb have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lbdb package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.