How To Install prayer-accountd on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install prayer-accountd on Kali Linux. prayer-accountd is account management daemon for Prayer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install prayer-accountd on Kali Linux.

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 Kali Linux. 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 on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. 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 Kali Linux

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 Kali Linux, 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 Kali Linux 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 Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.