How To Install prayer-accountd on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prayer-accountd on Debian 10.
What is prayer-accountd
prayer-accountd is:
Prayer is yet another Webmail interface.
It is unusual in that it is a complete, standalone, HTTP server and proxy rather a Apache/mod_php plugin. Prayer maintains persistent connections to the IMAP server and is written entirely in C. Consequently it is much faster than most open source Webmail interfaces and puts very little load on either the machines running the Web server or the backend IMAP servers (even if traditional Unix format mailfolders are in use).
This package contains a daemon that can do the following for users:
- Change passwords
- Change their full name
- Manage mail filtering (requires Exim) and forwarding
- Manage vacation messages and logs
NOTE: This package is currently not very useful.
There are three methods to install prayer-accountd 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 prayer-accountd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prayer-accountd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prayer-accountd
Install prayer-accountd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prayer-accountd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prayer-accountd
Install prayer-accountd 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 prayer-accountd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prayer-accountd
How To Uninstall prayer-accountd on Debian 10
To uninstall only the prayer-accountd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prayer-accountd
Uninstall prayer-accountd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prayer-accountd and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prayer-accountd
Remove prayer-accountd Configurations and Data
To remove prayer-accountd configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prayer-accountd
Remove prayer-accountd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prayer-accountd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prayer-accountd
Dependencies
prayer-accountd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prayer-accountd package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.