How To Install wmail on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wmail on Kali Linux.

What is wmail

wmail is:

wmail is a Window Maker docklet watching your inbox, which is either a ordinary mbox or a directory conforming to qmail’s Maildir format. It provides a nice little GUI displaying some useful pieces of information about your inbox (as many other nice wm-apps doing nearly the same thing…). Per default it uses the $MAIL environment-variable to locate the inbox you are using, other mailing mechanisms like POP or IMAP are not supported - use a tool like fetchmail to retrieve POP- or IMAP-based mail.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmail

Install wmail Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wmail

Install wmail 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 update

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

sudo aptitude -y install wmail

How To Uninstall wmail on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove wmail

Uninstall wmail And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wmail and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wmail

Remove wmail Configurations and Data

To remove wmail configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wmail

Remove wmail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wmail

Dependencies

wmail have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libdockapp3
• libx11-6

References

• wmail website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wmail package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.