How To Install libphp-phpmailer on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libphp-phpmailer on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libphp-phpmailer
libphp-phpmailer is:
Many PHP developers utilize email in their code. The only PHP function that supports this is the mail() function. However, it does not provide any assistance for making use of popular features such as HTML-based emails and attachments.
Class Features:
- Integrated SMTP support - send without a local mail server
- Send emails with multiple TOs, CCs, BCCs and REPLY-TOs
- Multipart/alternative emails for mail clients that do not read HTML email
- Support for UTF-8 content and 8bit, base64, binary, and quoted-printable encodings
- SMTP authentication with LOGIN, PLAIN, NTLM and CRAM-MD5 mechanisms over SSL and TLS transports
- Error messages in 47 languages
- DKIM and S/MIME signing support
There are three methods to install libphp-phpmailer on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libphp-phpmailer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libphp-phpmailer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libphp-phpmailer
Install libphp-phpmailer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libphp-phpmailer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libphp-phpmailer
Install libphp-phpmailer 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 libphp-phpmailer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libphp-phpmailer
How To Uninstall libphp-phpmailer on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libphp-phpmailer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libphp-phpmailer
Uninstall libphp-phpmailer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libphp-phpmailer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libphp-phpmailer
Remove libphp-phpmailer Configurations and Data
To remove libphp-phpmailer configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libphp-phpmailer
Remove libphp-phpmailer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libphp-phpmailer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libphp-phpmailer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libphp-phpmailer package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
