How To Install libmail-spf-perl on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmail-spf-perl
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libmail-spf-perl
libmail-spf-perl is:
Mail::SPF is an object-oriented Perl implementation of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) e-mail sender authentication system http://www.openspf.org.
It supports both the TXT and SPF RR types as well as both SPFv1 (v=spf1) and Sender ID (spf2.0) records, and it is fully compliant to RFCs 4408 and 4406. (It does not however implement the patented PRA address selection algorithm described in RFC 4407.)
There are three methods to install libmail-spf-perl
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmail-spf-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmail-spf-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmail-spf-perl
Install libmail-spf-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmail-spf-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmail-spf-perl
Install libmail-spf-perl 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libmail-spf-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmail-spf-perl
How To Uninstall libmail-spf-perl on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libmail-spf-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmail-spf-perl
Uninstall libmail-spf-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmail-spf-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmail-spf-perl
Remove libmail-spf-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libmail-spf-perl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmail-spf-perl
Remove libmail-spf-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmail-spf-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmail-spf-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmail-spf-perl
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.