How To Install mailnag on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailnag
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mailnag
mailnag is:
Mailnag is a daemon program that checks POP3 and IMAP servers for new mail. On mail arrival it performs various actions provided by plugins. Mailnag comes with a set of desktop-independent default plugins for visual/sound notifications, script execution etc. and can be extended with additional plugins easily.
Package: mailnag Architecture: all Version: 1.2.1-1.1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: universe/gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Vincent Cheng [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 33 Depends: gir1.2-glib-2.0 (>= 1.32.0), gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 (>= 1.2.0), gir1.2-gtk-3.0 (>= 3.6.4), gir1.2-notify-0.7 (>= 0.7.6), python-dbus (>= 1.0.0), python-gobject-2, python-xdg Recommends: network-manager (>= 0.9.4) Suggests: gir1.2-gnomekeyring-1.0 (>= 3.2.2) Filename: pool/universe/m/mailnag/mailnag_1.2.1-1.1ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 9488 MD5sum: 43390e246e030aa53bb3f01199a098af SHA1: 28988cfde52635d19b657160c8f8b617256439c7 SHA256: 8ba0595e0873f18164b5ad9918707d62a1e548e3898f6fb949de287a8516795e Homepage: https://github.com/pulb/mailnag Description-en: extensible mail notification daemon Mailnag is a daemon program that checks POP3 and IMAP servers for new mail. On mail arrival it performs various actions provided by plugins. Mailnag comes with a set of desktop-independent default plugins for visual/sound notifications, script execution etc. and can be extended with additional plugins easily.
There are three methods to install mailnag
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mailnag Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mailnag
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mailnag
Install mailnag Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mailnag
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mailnag
Install mailnag 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 mailnag
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mailnag
How To Uninstall mailnag on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mailnag
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mailnag
Uninstall mailnag And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mailnag
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mailnag
Remove mailnag Configurations and Data
To remove mailnag
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mailnag
Remove mailnag configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mailnag
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mailnag
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailnag
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.