How To Install bogofilter-bdb on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-bdb on Ubuntu 22.04. bogofilter-bdb is fast Bayesian spam filter (Berkeley DB)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-bdb on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is bogofilter-bdb

bogofilter-bdb is:

This package implements a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article “A Plan For Spam”.

This version substantially improves on Paul’s proposal by doing smarter lexical analysis. In particular, hostnames and IP addresses are retained as recognition features rather than broken up. Various kinds of MTA cruft such as dates and message-IDs are discarded so as not to bloat the word lists.

This package provides the bdb database backend.

There are three methods to install bogofilter-bdb 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 bogofilter-bdb Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bogofilter-bdb using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bogofilter-bdb

Install bogofilter-bdb Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bogofilter-bdb using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bogofilter-bdb

Install bogofilter-bdb 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 bogofilter-bdb using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bogofilter-bdb

How To Uninstall bogofilter-bdb on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the bogofilter-bdb package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bogofilter-bdb

Uninstall bogofilter-bdb And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bogofilter-bdb and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bogofilter-bdb

Remove bogofilter-bdb Configurations and Data

To remove bogofilter-bdb configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bogofilter-bdb

Remove bogofilter-bdb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bogofilter-bdb configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bogofilter-bdb

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bogofilter-bdb package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.