How To Install libphp-phpmailer on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libphp-phpmailer on Kali Linux. libphp-phpmailer is full featured email transfer class for PHP

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libphp-phpmailer on Kali Linux.

What is libphp-phpmailer

libphp-phpmailer is:

Many PHP developers utilize email in their code. The only PHP function that supports this is the mail() function. However, it does not provide any assistance for making use of popular features such as HTML-based emails and attachments.

Class Features:

  • Integrated SMTP support - send without a local mail server
  • Send emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs
  • Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read HTML email
  • Support for UTF-8 content and 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encodings
  • SMTP authentication with LOGIN, PLAIN, NTLM and CRAM-MD5 mechanisms over SSL and TLS transports
  • Error messages in 47 languages
  • DKIM and S/MIME signing support

There are three methods to install libphp-phpmailer 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 libphp-phpmailer Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libphp-phpmailer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libphp-phpmailer

Install libphp-phpmailer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libphp-phpmailer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libphp-phpmailer

Install libphp-phpmailer 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 libphp-phpmailer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libphp-phpmailer

How To Uninstall libphp-phpmailer on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libphp-phpmailer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libphp-phpmailer

Uninstall libphp-phpmailer And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libphp-phpmailer

Remove libphp-phpmailer Configurations and Data

To remove libphp-phpmailer configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libphp-phpmailer

Remove libphp-phpmailer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libphp-phpmailer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libphp-phpmailer

Dependencies

libphp-phpmailer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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