How To Install undbx on Debian 10

Learn how to install undbx on Debian 10 with this tutorial. undbx is tool to extract, recover and undelete e-mail messages from .dbx files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install undbx on Debian 10.

What is undbx

undbx is:

UnDBX is a tool to extract, recover and undelete e-mail messages from MS Outlook Express .dbx files (or similar e-mail programs in MS Windows). Corrupted .dbx files can be parsed to try to recover messages from it. It can also try to undelete messages, not only from Deleted Items but also from fragments of deleted messages that were not overwritten.

UnDBX is useful in forensics investigations.

There are three methods to install undbx 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 undbx Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install undbx using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install undbx

Install undbx Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install undbx using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install undbx

Install undbx 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 undbx using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install undbx

How To Uninstall undbx on Debian 10

To uninstall only the undbx package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove undbx

Uninstall undbx And Its Dependencies

To uninstall undbx and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove undbx

Remove undbx Configurations and Data

To remove undbx configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge undbx

Remove undbx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove undbx configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge undbx

Dependencies

undbx have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install undbx package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.