How To Install mutt on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutt
on Debian 11.
What is mutt
mutt is:
Mutt is a sophisticated text-based Mail User Agent. Some highlights:
- MIME support (including RFC1522 encoding/decoding of 8-bit message headers and UTF-8 support).
- PGP/MIME support (RFC 2015).
- Advanced IMAP client supporting SSL encryption and SASL authentication.
- POP3 support.
- ESMTP support.
- Message threading (both strict and non-strict).
- Keybindings are configurable, default keybindings are much like ELM; Mush and PINE-like ones are provided as examples.
- Handles MMDF, MH and Maildir in addition to regular mbox format.
- Messages may be (indefinitely) postponed.
- Colour support.
- Highly configurable through easy but powerful rc file.
- Support for compressed mailboxes.
- An optional Sidebar.
There are three methods to install mutt
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mutt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mutt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mutt
Install mutt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mutt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mutt
Install mutt 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 mutt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mutt
How To Uninstall mutt on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mutt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mutt
Uninstall mutt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mutt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mutt
Remove mutt Configurations and Data
To remove mutt
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mutt
Remove mutt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mutt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mutt
Dependencies
mutt have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgnutls30
- libgpg-error0
- libgpgme11
- libgssapi-krb5-2
- libidn2-0
- libncursesw6
- libsasl2-2
- libtinfo6
- libtokyocabinet9
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutt
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.