How To Install wmf on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is wmf

wmf is:

This program converts emails to HTML and makes index files (by author, data, subject,thread). Of course there are other programs making the same, but here are some features which not all have:

• correct threading without level limitation
• quoted-printable text encoding
• home page hyperlink (X-URL)
• faces support
• breaking indexes in different pages to make them smaller (don’t break between threads)
• index time limitation (older mail disappears from the index)
• frame support

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmf

Install wmf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wmf

Install wmf 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 wmf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wmf

How To Uninstall wmf on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove wmf

Uninstall wmf And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wmf

Remove wmf Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wmf

Remove wmf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wmf

Dependencies

wmf have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• wmf website

Summary

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