How To Install mailgraph on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mailgraph on Kali Linux.

What is mailgraph

mailgraph is:

Mailgraph is a very simple mail statistics RRDtool frontend for Postfix, Sendmail or Exim that produces daily, weekly, monthly and yearly graphs of received/sent and bounced/rejected mail.

There are three methods to install mailgraph 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 mailgraph Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mailgraph

Install mailgraph Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mailgraph using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mailgraph

Install mailgraph 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 mailgraph using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mailgraph

How To Uninstall mailgraph on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the mailgraph package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mailgraph

Uninstall mailgraph And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mailgraph

Remove mailgraph Configurations and Data

To remove mailgraph configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mailgraph

Remove mailgraph configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mailgraph

Dependencies

mailgraph have the following dependencies:

• debconf
• perl

References

• mailgraph website

Summary

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