How To Install sendmail-base on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-base
on Debian 11.
What is sendmail-base
sendmail-base is:
Sendmail is an alternative Mail Transport Agent (MTA) for Debian. It is suitable for handling sophisticated mail configurations, although this means that its configuration can also be complex.
This package contains the base, architecture independent, portions of the sendmail packages.
There are three methods to install sendmail-base
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sendmail-base Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sendmail-base
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sendmail-base
Install sendmail-base Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sendmail-base
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sendmail-base
Install sendmail-base 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 sendmail-base
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sendmail-base
How To Uninstall sendmail-base on Debian 11
To uninstall only the sendmail-base
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sendmail-base
Uninstall sendmail-base And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sendmail-base
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sendmail-base
Remove sendmail-base Configurations and Data
To remove sendmail-base
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sendmail-base
Remove sendmail-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sendmail-base
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sendmail-base
Dependencies
sendmail-base have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendmail-base
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.