How To Install ytnef-tools on Debian 12

Learn how to install ytnef-tools on Debian 12 with this tutorial. ytnef-tools is ytnef decoder commandline tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ytnef-tools on Debian 12.

What is ytnef-tools

ytnef-tools is:

Yerase’s TNEF Stream Reader allows you to decode application/ms-tnef e-mail attachments, which are usually entitled “winmail.dat” and are generally a file container format that is only readable by Microsoft Outlook. Some TNEF streams also include RTF-formatted data.

These are the frontend programs for the libytnef library, which can be used to decode TNEF attachments on the commandline.

There are three methods to install ytnef-tools on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install ytnef-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ytnef-tools

Install ytnef-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ytnef-tools

Install ytnef-tools 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 ytnef-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ytnef-tools

How To Uninstall ytnef-tools on Debian 12

To uninstall only the ytnef-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ytnef-tools

Uninstall ytnef-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ytnef-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ytnef-tools

Remove ytnef-tools Configurations and Data

To remove ytnef-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ytnef-tools

Remove ytnef-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ytnef-tools

Dependencies

ytnef-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ytnef-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.