How To Install smartlist on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install smartlist
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is smartlist
smartlist is:
SmartList is a mailing list manager built on top of the procmail mail processing package. Some features:
- Enough intelligence to overcome the ignorance of some subscribers (will direct subscribe and unsubscribe requests away from the regular list and automatically onto the -request address).
- No hardwired format for (un)subscribe requests (i.e. new subscribers need not be educated, unsubscribing users do not need to remember any particular syntax).
- Intelligent automatic removal of addresses from the list that cause too many bounces.
- Duplicate submissions are eliminated automatically.
- You can set up a mailing list to function as a standalone mail archive server.
There are three methods to install smartlist
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 smartlist Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install smartlist
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install smartlist
Install smartlist Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install smartlist
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install smartlist
Install smartlist 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 smartlist
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install smartlist
How To Uninstall smartlist on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the smartlist
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove smartlist
Uninstall smartlist And Its Dependencies
To uninstall smartlist
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove smartlist
Remove smartlist Configurations and Data
To remove smartlist
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge smartlist
Remove smartlist configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove smartlist
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smartlist
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install smartlist
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.