How To Install cyrus-common on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyrus-common on Ubuntu.

What is `cyrus-common`

cyrus-common is:

Cyrus is an IMAP server designed to handle massive quantities of mail, with a number of features not found in other IMAP implementations, including support for:

running the daemon without root privileges;
POP3 and NNTP in addition to plain IMAP;
CalDAV and CardDAV;
secure IMAP using SSL;
server-side filtering with Sieve;
mail users without login accounts;
simple mail quotas;
virtual domains;
IPv6.

Cyrus doesn’t support reading from and storing mail in the standard mail spool. It stores mail in a separate directory in its own MH-like format.

This package contains the common files needed by the other Cyrus components. The cyrus-imapd and/or cyrus-pop3d packages are needed to enable IMAP and POP3 support respectively. cyrus-murder can be used to enable IMAP, POP3 and LMTP proxying. cyrus-replication can be used to provide server replication between two imap servers.

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

Install cyrus-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cyrus-common

Install cyrus-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cyrus-common

Install cyrus-common 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 cyrus-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cyrus-common

How To Uninstall cyrus-common on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the cyrus-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cyrus-common

Uninstall cyrus-common And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cyrus-common

Remove cyrus-common Configurations and Data

To remove cyrus-common configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cyrus-common

Remove cyrus-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cyrus-common

Dependencies

cyrus-common have the following dependencies:

References

cyrus-common website

Summary

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