How To Install mailman3-web on Debian 12

Learn how to install mailman3-web on Debian 12 with this tutorial. mailman3-web is Django project integrating Mailman3 Postorius and HyperKitty

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mailman3-web on Debian 12.

What is mailman3-web

mailman3-web is:

This django web application provides the Mailman3 Postorius web interface and the HyperKitty mailinglist archiver integrated into one project.

The package automates most of the necessary configuration for the Django project (database setup, webserver configuration, secret and API key generation, Django project configuration) to get a ready-to-use Mailman3 web suite.

The Mailman3 Django project runs as uWSGI daemon and optionally a webserver is configured as reverse proxy. In this case, the service can be accessed at ‘/mailman3’.

Default database backend is SQLite3 in order to not break automated installations. For productive setups, PostgreSQL or MySQL are much better options though. See README.Debian for further information.

There are three methods to install mailman3-web on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mailman3-web Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mailman3-web using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mailman3-web

Install mailman3-web Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mailman3-web using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mailman3-web

Install mailman3-web 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install mailman3-web using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mailman3-web

How To Uninstall mailman3-web on Debian 12

To uninstall only the mailman3-web package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mailman3-web

Uninstall mailman3-web And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mailman3-web and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mailman3-web

Remove mailman3-web Configurations and Data

To remove mailman3-web configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mailman3-web

Remove mailman3-web configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mailman3-web configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mailman3-web

Dependencies

mailman3-web have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mailman3-web package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.