How To Install sendemail on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendemail
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is sendemail
sendemail is:
SendEmail is a lightweight, completely command line based, SMTP email agent. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, Perl programs, and web sites, but it is also quite useful in many other contexts.
SendEmail is written in Perl and is unique in that it requires no special modules. It has a straight forward interface, making it very easy to use.
There are three methods to install sendemail
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sendemail Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sendemail
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sendemail
Install sendemail Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sendemail
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sendemail
Install sendemail 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install sendemail
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sendemail
How To Uninstall sendemail on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the sendemail
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sendemail
Uninstall sendemail And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sendemail
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sendemail
Remove sendemail Configurations and Data
To remove sendemail
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sendemail
Remove sendemail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sendemail
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sendemail
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendemail
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.