How To Install larch on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install larch
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is larch
larch is:
Larch is a tool to copy messages from one IMAP server to another quickly and safely. It’s smart enough not to copy messages that already exist on the destination and robust enough to deal with interruptions caused by flaky connections or misbehaving servers.
Larch is particularly well-suited for copying email to, from, or between Gmail accounts.
Note that this package is currently unmaintained upstream, although it is still functional.
There are three methods to install larch
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install larch Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install larch
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install larch
Install larch Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install larch
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install larch
Install larch 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 larch
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install larch
How To Uninstall larch on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the larch
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove larch
Uninstall larch And Its Dependencies
To uninstall larch
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove larch
Remove larch Configurations and Data
To remove larch
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge larch
Remove larch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove larch
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge larch
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install larch
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.