How To Install sylfilter on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sylfilter on Kali Linux.
What is sylfilter
sylfilter is:
SylFilter is a generic message filter library and command-line tools. It provides a bayesian filter which is very popular as an algorithm for spam filtering. SylFilter also supports multilingual and can be applied to any languages. It is implemented with C language and runs fast with small resources.
- Very lightweight and fast
- Provides learning-type junk filter
- Easy-to-use command line tool
- Multilingual support (including CJKV)
- Supports several embedded databases (SQLite and QDBM)
There are three methods to install sylfilter 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 sylfilter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install sylfilter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sylfilterInstall sylfilter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install sylfilter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sylfilterInstall sylfilter 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install sylfilter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sylfilterHow To Uninstall sylfilter on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the sylfilter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sylfilterUninstall sylfilter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sylfilter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sylfilterRemove sylfilter Configurations and Data
To remove sylfilter configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sylfilterRemove sylfilter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sylfilter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sylfilterDependencies
sylfilter have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sylfilter package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
