How To Install spamassassin on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamassassin on Debian 12.
What is spamassassin
spamassassin is:
SpamAssassin is a very powerful and fully configurable spam filter with numerous features including automatic white-listing, RBL testing, Bayesian analysis, header and body text analysis. It is designed to be called from a user’s .procmail or .forward file, but can also be integrated into a Mail Transport Agent (MTA).
If you use spamassassin on a moderately high-volume mail server, you may which to consider installing the spamc and spamd packages, which provide a daemonized variant of spamassassin that avoids the need to start a full perl runtime for each message processed.
There are three methods to install spamassassin on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install spamassassin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spamassassin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spamassassin
Install spamassassin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spamassassin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spamassassin
Install spamassassin 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 spamassassin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spamassassin
How To Uninstall spamassassin on Debian 12
To uninstall only the spamassassin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spamassassin
Uninstall spamassassin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spamassassin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spamassassin
Remove spamassassin Configurations and Data
To remove spamassassin configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spamassassin
Remove spamassassin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spamassassin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spamassassin
Dependencies
spamassassin have the following dependencies:
- perl
- libhtml-parser-perl
- libsocket6-perl
- adduser
- libsys-hostname-long-perl
- libarchive-tar-perl
- libnet-dns-perl
- libnetaddr-ip-perl
- libhttp-date-perl
- libmail-dkim-perl
- libio-string-perl
- lsb-base
- libwww-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamassassin package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
