How To Install spamc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spamc on Kali Linux.

What is spamc

spamc is:

spamc is the client to communicate with spamd, the daemonized form of SpamAssassin (see the spamassassin package). It is written in C for maximum speed and minimum loading overhead.

spamc is quite useful for integrating spamassassin into an MTA or into a .procmailrc file because of its speed.

This package is useless unless you have spamassassin installed, either on this machine or another local machine (i.e. a mail server).

There are three methods to install spamc on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install spamc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install spamc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install spamc

Install spamc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install spamc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install spamc

Install spamc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install spamc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spamc

How To Uninstall spamc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the spamc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spamc

Uninstall spamc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall spamc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spamc

Remove spamc Configurations and Data

To remove spamc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spamc

Remove spamc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove spamc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spamc

Dependencies

spamc have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libssl1.1

References

• spamc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spamc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.