How To Install sma on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sma
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is sma
sma is:
SMA is a program that analyses Sendmail log entries.
Features:
- Support for all recent Sendmail versions
- Flexible output formatting - HTML, ASCII and a custom log
- Regular expression filtering of messages
- Multiple hosts in the same report
There are three methods to install sma
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 sma Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sma
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sma
Install sma Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sma
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sma
Install sma 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 sma
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sma
How To Uninstall sma on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the sma
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sma
Uninstall sma And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sma
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sma
Remove sma Configurations and Data
To remove sma
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sma
Remove sma configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sma
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sma
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sma
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.