How To Install neomutt on Debian 10

Learn how to install neomutt on Debian 10 with this tutorial. neomutt is command line mail reader based on Mutt, with added features

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neomutt on Debian 10.

What is neomutt

neomutt is:

Neomutt supports all the features that are supported by Mutt, including POP and IMAP support, SSL encryption and SASL authentication, threading and GPG support. On the top of that, neomutt provides:

  • Notmuch: a mail indexing tools that provides advanced features such as full-text search, thread reconstruction and added features.
  • Color attachment headers using regex, just like mail bodies.
  • Custom rules for theming the mail index.
  • NNTP support.
  • Visual progress bar for slow operations.
  • Trash folder.

There are three methods to install neomutt on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install neomutt Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install neomutt

Install neomutt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install neomutt

Install neomutt 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 neomutt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install neomutt

How To Uninstall neomutt on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove neomutt

Uninstall neomutt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall neomutt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove neomutt

Remove neomutt Configurations and Data

To remove neomutt configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge neomutt

Remove neomutt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neomutt

Dependencies

neomutt have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install neomutt package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.