How To Install claws-mail-libravatar on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install claws-mail-libravatar on Kali Linux. claws-mail-libravatar is Display sender avatar from a libravatar server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install claws-mail-libravatar on Kali Linux.

What is claws-mail-libravatar

claws-mail-libravatar is:

This plugin for the Claws Mail mailer allows retrieval of profile images from libravatar servers, either federated servers (running on sender’s domain) or the main libravatar.org server.

Currently supports all default missing icon modes on libravatar.org service, and makes extensive use of disk caching to minimize the number of network requests.

Nevertheless, it may add several network requests per message, so if you’re on a high latency network you may experience some delay displaying messages.

There are three methods to install claws-mail-libravatar 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 claws-mail-libravatar Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install claws-mail-libravatar

Install claws-mail-libravatar Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-libravatar using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install claws-mail-libravatar

Install claws-mail-libravatar 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 claws-mail-libravatar using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install claws-mail-libravatar

How To Uninstall claws-mail-libravatar on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the claws-mail-libravatar package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove claws-mail-libravatar

Uninstall claws-mail-libravatar And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove claws-mail-libravatar

Remove claws-mail-libravatar Configurations and Data

To remove claws-mail-libravatar configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge claws-mail-libravatar

Remove claws-mail-libravatar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove claws-mail-libravatar configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge claws-mail-libravatar

Dependencies

claws-mail-libravatar have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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