How To Install undbx on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install undbx on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove undbx
Remove undbx Configurations and Data
To remove undbx configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install undbx package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
