How To Install mairix on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mairix on Debian 9.
What is mairix
mairix is:
mairix is a program for indexing and searching email messages stored offline on your computer. mairix supports the Maildir, MH folders, and mbox formats.
Some features:
Indexing is fast. It runs incrementally on new messages - any particular message only gets scanned once in the lifetime of the index file.
Searching is fast.
The search mode populates a “virtual” maildir folder with symlinks which point to the real messages. This folder can be opened as usual in your mail program.
Indexing and searching is based on words. The index file tabulates which words occur in which parts (particular headers + body) of which messages.
There are three methods to install mairix on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mairix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mairix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mairix
Install mairix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mairix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mairix
Install mairix 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 mairix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mairix
How To Uninstall mairix on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mairix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mairix
Uninstall mairix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mairix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mairix
Remove mairix Configurations and Data
To remove mairix configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mairix
Remove mairix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mairix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mairix
Dependencies
mairix have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mairix package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.