How To Install sugarplum on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sugarplum on Debian 10.
What is sugarplum
sugarplum is:
Sugarplum is an automated spam-poisoner. Its purpose is to feed realistic and enticing, but totally useless or hazardous data to wandering address harvesters such as EmailSiphon, Cherry Picker, etc. The idea is to so contaminate spammers’ databases as to require that they be discarded, or at least that all data retrieved from your site (including actual email addresses) be removed.
Sugarplum employs a combination of Apache’s mod_rewrite URL rewriting rules and perl code. It combines several anti-spambot tactics, includling fictitious (but RFC822-compliant) email address poisoning, injection with the addresses of known spammers (let them all spam each other), deterministic output, and “teergrube” spamtrap addressing.
There are three methods to install sugarplum on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sugarplum Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sugarplum using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sugarplum
Install sugarplum Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sugarplum using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sugarplum
Install sugarplum 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 sugarplum using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sugarplum
How To Uninstall sugarplum on Debian 10
To uninstall only the sugarplum package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sugarplum
Uninstall sugarplum And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sugarplum and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sugarplum
Remove sugarplum Configurations and Data
To remove sugarplum configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sugarplum
Remove sugarplum configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sugarplum configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sugarplum
Dependencies
sugarplum have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sugarplum package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.