How To Install spamoracle on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamoracle on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 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 spamoracle using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spamoracle
How To Uninstall spamoracle on Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spamoracle
Remove spamoracle Configurations and Data
To remove spamoracle configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spamoracle package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
