How To Install pagure-milters on Debian 12

Learn how to install pagure-milters on Debian 12 with this tutorial. pagure-milters is git-centered forge using pygit2 - milters (mail filters)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pagure-milters on Debian 12.

What is pagure-milters

pagure-milters is:

Pagure is a git-centered forge, Python based using pygit2.

pagure-milters is used to allow replying on a comment of a ticket or a pull-request by directly replying to the notification sent. No need to go to the page anymore to reply to a comment someone made.

It integrates with an MTA such as postfix or sendmail that you will have running and have access to in order to change its configuration.

There are three methods to install pagure-milters on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install pagure-milters Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pagure-milters

Install pagure-milters Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install pagure-milters

Install pagure-milters 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 pagure-milters using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pagure-milters

How To Uninstall pagure-milters on Debian 12

To uninstall only the pagure-milters package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pagure-milters

Uninstall pagure-milters And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pagure-milters and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pagure-milters

Remove pagure-milters Configurations and Data

To remove pagure-milters configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pagure-milters

Remove pagure-milters configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pagure-milters

Dependencies

pagure-milters have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pagure-milters package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.