How To Install sylfilter on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sylfilter
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sylfilter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sylfilter
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sylfilter
Install sylfilter Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sylfilter
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sylfilter
Install sylfilter 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 sylfilter
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sylfilter
How To Uninstall sylfilter on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the sylfilter
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sylfilter
Uninstall sylfilter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sylfilter
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sylfilter
Remove sylfilter Configurations and Data
To remove sylfilter
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sylfilter
Remove 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 sylfilter
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sylfilter
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.