How To Install claws-mail-extra-plugins on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install claws-mail-extra-plugins
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is claws-mail-extra-plugins
claws-mail-extra-plugins is:
This is a metapackage for installing all extra plugins packages available from the upstream site for the Claws Mail mailer.
Historically these were plugins shipped in a separate tarball but nowadays they are included in Claws Mail sources.
See each individual package description for further details.
There are three methods to install claws-mail-extra-plugins
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 claws-mail-extra-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-extra-plugins
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install claws-mail-extra-plugins
Install claws-mail-extra-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install claws-mail-extra-plugins
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install claws-mail-extra-plugins
Install claws-mail-extra-plugins 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 claws-mail-extra-plugins
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install claws-mail-extra-plugins
How To Uninstall claws-mail-extra-plugins on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the claws-mail-extra-plugins
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove claws-mail-extra-plugins
Uninstall claws-mail-extra-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall claws-mail-extra-plugins
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove claws-mail-extra-plugins
Remove claws-mail-extra-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove claws-mail-extra-plugins
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge claws-mail-extra-plugins
Remove claws-mail-extra-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove claws-mail-extra-plugins
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge claws-mail-extra-plugins
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install claws-mail-extra-plugins
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.