How To Install sup-mail on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sup-mail on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is sup-mail
sup-mail is:
Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email. It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact-list management, custom code insertion via a hook system, and more. If you’re the type of person who treats email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you.
Sup makes it easy to: * Handle massive amounts of email. * Mix email from different sources: mbox files and Maildirs, across multiple machines. * Instantaneously search over your entire email collection. Search over body text, or use a query language to combine search predicates in any way. * Handle multiple accounts. Replying to email sent to a particular account will use the correct SMTP server, signature, and from address. * Add custom code to handle certain types of messages or to handle certain types of text within messages. * Organize email with user-defined labels, automatically track recent contacts, and much more!
The goal of Sup is to become the email client of choice for nerds everywhere.
There are three methods to install sup-mail 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 sup-mail Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sup-mail using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sup-mail
Install sup-mail Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sup-mail using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sup-mail
Install sup-mail 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 sup-mail using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sup-mail
How To Uninstall sup-mail on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the sup-mail package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sup-mail
Uninstall sup-mail And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sup-mail and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sup-mail
Remove sup-mail Configurations and Data
To remove sup-mail configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sup-mail
Remove sup-mail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sup-mail configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sup-mail
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sup-mail package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
