How To Install spamc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamc on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 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 spamc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spamc
How To Uninstall spamc on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spamc
Remove spamc Configurations and Data
To remove spamc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
