How To Install muttdown on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install muttdown on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is muttdown
muttdown is:
muttdown is a sendmail-replacement designed for use with the mutt email client which will transparently compile annotated text/plain mail into text/html using the Markdown standard. It will recursively walk the MIME tree and compile any text/plain or text/markdown part which begins with the sigil “!m” into Markdown, which it will insert alongside the original in a multipart/alternative container.
It’s also smart enough not to break multipart/signed
There are three methods to install muttdown 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 muttdown Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install muttdown using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install muttdown
Install muttdown Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install muttdown using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install muttdown
Install muttdown 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 muttdown using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install muttdown
How To Uninstall muttdown on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the muttdown package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove muttdown
Uninstall muttdown And Its Dependencies
To uninstall muttdown and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove muttdown
Remove muttdown Configurations and Data
To remove muttdown configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge muttdown
Remove muttdown configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove muttdown configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge muttdown
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install muttdown package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.