How To Install spamoracle on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is spamoracle

spamoracle is:

SpamOracle, a.k.a. “Saint Peter”, is a tool to help detect and filter away “spam” (unsolicited commercial e-mail). It proceeds by statistical analysis of the words that appear in the e-mail, comparing the frequencies of words with those found in a user-provided corpus of known spam and known legitimate e-mail. The classification algorithm is based on Bayes’ formula, and is described in Paul Graham’s paper, A plan for spam.

This program is designed to work in conjunction with procmail. The result of the analysis is output as an additional message header X-Spam:, followed by yes, no or unknown, plus additional details. A procmail rule can then test this X-Spam: header and deliver the e-mail to the appropriate mailbox.

There are three methods to install spamoracle 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 spamoracle Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install spamoracle

Install spamoracle Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install spamoracle

Install spamoracle 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 spamoracle using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spamoracle

How To Uninstall spamoracle on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove spamoracle

Uninstall spamoracle And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spamoracle

Remove spamoracle Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge spamoracle

Remove spamoracle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spamoracle

Dependencies

spamoracle have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• spamoracle website

Summary

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