How To Install mailutils-doc on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mailutils-doc on Kali Linux.

What is mailutils-doc

mailutils-doc is:

GNU Mailutils is a rich and powerful protocol-independent mail framework. It contains a series of useful mail libraries, clients, and servers.

This package contains the documentation for the mailutils utilities and development API.

There are three methods to install mailutils-doc on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mailutils-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mailutils-doc

Install mailutils-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mailutils-doc

Install mailutils-doc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install mailutils-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mailutils-doc

How To Uninstall mailutils-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the mailutils-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mailutils-doc

Uninstall mailutils-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mailutils-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mailutils-doc

Remove mailutils-doc Configurations and Data

To remove mailutils-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mailutils-doc

Remove mailutils-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mailutils-doc

Dependencies

mailutils-doc have the following dependencies:

References

• mailutils-doc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mailutils-doc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.