How To Install python-mailutils on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-mailutils
on Debian 10.
What is python-mailutils
python-mailutils is:
GNU Mailutils is a rich and powerful protocol-independent mail framework. It contains a series of useful mail libraries, clients, and servers.
This is the Python interface to the Mailutils library.
There are three methods to install python-mailutils
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 python-mailutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-mailutils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-mailutils
Install python-mailutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-mailutils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-mailutils
Install python-mailutils 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 python-mailutils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-mailutils
How To Uninstall python-mailutils on Debian 10
To uninstall only the python-mailutils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-mailutils
Uninstall python-mailutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-mailutils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-mailutils
Remove python-mailutils Configurations and Data
To remove python-mailutils
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-mailutils
Remove python-mailutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-mailutils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-mailutils
Dependencies
python-mailutils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-mailutils
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.