How To Install bld-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bld-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is bld-tools
bld-tools is:
BLD stands for “black list daemon” and is intended to build blacklists using simple rules based on a maximum number of submissions of the same IP address during a minimum time interval. BLD was primarily designed to fight against dictionary-based spams (by making the MTA report to BLD any host that tries to send a mail to an unknown user) but can be used by any application that needs a blacklist based on connection rate limits.
This package contains additional tools to be used with bld.
There are three methods to install bld-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bld-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 bld-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bld-tools
Install bld-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bld-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bld-tools
Install bld-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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bld-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bld-tools
How To Uninstall bld-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the bld-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bld-tools
Uninstall bld-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bld-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bld-tools
Remove bld-tools Configurations and Data
To remove bld-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bld-tools
Remove bld-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bld-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bld-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bld-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
