How To Install libmailutils-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmailutils-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libmailutils-dev
libmailutils-dev is:
GNU Mailutils is a rich and powerful protocol-independent mail framework. It contains a series of useful mail libraries, clients, and servers.
This package includes the development files for GNU mailutils and GNU’s Mail abstraction library.
There are three methods to install libmailutils-dev
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmailutils-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmailutils-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmailutils-dev
Install libmailutils-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmailutils-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmailutils-dev
Install libmailutils-dev 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 libmailutils-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmailutils-dev
How To Uninstall libmailutils-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libmailutils-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmailutils-dev
Uninstall libmailutils-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmailutils-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmailutils-dev
Remove libmailutils-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmailutils-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmailutils-dev
Remove libmailutils-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmailutils-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmailutils-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmailutils-dev
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.