How To Install libmail-thread-perl on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmail-thread-perl on Kali Linux.

What is libmail-thread-perl

libmail-thread-perl is:

The Mail::Thread module implements something relatively close to Jamie Zawinski’s mail threading algorithm, as described by http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html. This algorithm is based on following References and In-Reply-To headers, and is able to deal with not having all of the messages in a thread.

There are three methods to install libmail-thread-perl 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 libmail-thread-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-thread-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmail-thread-perl

Install libmail-thread-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmail-thread-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmail-thread-perl

Install libmail-thread-perl 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 libmail-thread-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmail-thread-perl

How To Uninstall libmail-thread-perl on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libmail-thread-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmail-thread-perl

Uninstall libmail-thread-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmail-thread-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmail-thread-perl

Remove libmail-thread-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libmail-thread-perl configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmail-thread-perl

Remove libmail-thread-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmail-thread-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmail-thread-perl

Dependencies

libmail-thread-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• libmail-thread-perl website

Summary

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