How To Install swaks on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swaks on Debian 12.
What is swaks
swaks is:
swaks (Swiss Army Knife SMTP) is a command-line tool written in Perl for testing SMTP setups; it supports STARTTLS and SMTP AUTH (PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, SPA, and DIGEST-MD5). swaks allows one to stop the SMTP dialog at any stage, e.g to check RCPT TO: without actually sending a mail.
If you are spending too much time iterating “telnet foo.example 25” swaks is for you.
There are three methods to install swaks on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install swaks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swaks using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swaks
Install swaks Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swaks using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swaks
Install swaks 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 swaks using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swaks
How To Uninstall swaks on Debian 12
To uninstall only the swaks package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swaks
Uninstall swaks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swaks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swaks
Remove swaks Configurations and Data
To remove swaks configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swaks
Remove swaks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swaks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swaks
Dependencies
swaks have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swaks package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.