How To Install notmuch on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install notmuch
on Debian 10.
What is notmuch
notmuch is:
Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a very convenient search syntax.
This package contains the notmuch command-line interface
There are three methods to install notmuch
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 notmuch Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install notmuch
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install notmuch
Install notmuch Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install notmuch
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install notmuch
Install notmuch 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 notmuch
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install notmuch
How To Uninstall notmuch on Debian 10
To uninstall only the notmuch
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove notmuch
Uninstall notmuch And Its Dependencies
To uninstall notmuch
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove notmuch
Remove notmuch Configurations and Data
To remove notmuch
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge notmuch
Remove notmuch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove notmuch
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge notmuch
Dependencies
notmuch have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install notmuch
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.