How To Install wl-beta on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wl-beta
on Debian 11.
What is wl-beta
wl-beta is:
Wanderlust is a mail/news management system on emacsen. It supports IMAP4rev1 (RFC2060), NNTP, POP and local message files.
The main features of Wanderlust:
- Pure elisp implementation.
- Supports IMAP4rev1, NNTP, POP (POP3/APOP), MH and Maildir format.
- Unified access method to messages based on Mew-like Folder Specification.
- Mew-like Key-bind and mark handling.
- Manages unread messages.
- Interactive thread display.
- Folder Mode shows the list of subscribed folders.
- Message Cache, Disconnected Operation.
- MH-like FCC. (Fcc: %Backup and Fcc: $Backup is allowed).
- MIME compliant (by SEMI).
- Transmission of news and mail are unified by Message transmitting draft.
- Graphical list of folders.
- View a part of message without retrieving the whole message (IMAP4).
- Server-side message look up (IMAP4). Multi-byte characters are allowed.
- Virtual Folders.
- Supports compressed folder using common archiving utilities.
- Old articles in folders are automatically removed/archived (Expiration).
- Automatic re-file.
- Template function makes it convenient to send fixed form messages.
This package provides a development snapshot version of Wanderlust.
There are three methods to install wl-beta
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wl-beta Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wl-beta
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wl-beta
Install wl-beta Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wl-beta
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wl-beta
Install wl-beta 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 wl-beta
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wl-beta
How To Uninstall wl-beta on Debian 11
To uninstall only the wl-beta
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wl-beta
Uninstall wl-beta And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wl-beta
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wl-beta
Remove wl-beta Configurations and Data
To remove wl-beta
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wl-beta
Remove wl-beta configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wl-beta
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wl-beta
Dependencies
wl-beta have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wl-beta
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.