How To Install prayer on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install prayer on Kali Linux. prayer is standalone IMAP-based webmail server

Introduction

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

What is prayer

prayer 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).

Prayer has very few external dependencies as user preferences are stored on the IMAP server rather than in a SQL database. It does however implement a full range of features and user preference settings.

There are three methods to install prayer 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install prayer

Install prayer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install prayer

Install prayer 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install prayer

How To Uninstall prayer on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove prayer

Uninstall prayer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall prayer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove prayer

Remove prayer Configurations and Data

To remove prayer configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge prayer

Remove prayer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prayer

Dependencies

prayer have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install prayer package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.