How To Install exim4-daemon-heavy 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 exim4-daemon-heavy on Ubuntu.
What is exim4-daemon-heavy
exim4-daemon-heavy is:
Exim (v4) is a mail transport agent. This package contains the exim4 daemon with extended features. In addition to the features already supported by exim4-daemon-light, exim4-daemon-heavy includes LDAP, sqlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL data lookups, SASL and SPA SMTP authentication, embedded Perl interpreter, and the content scanning extension (formerly known as “exiscan-acl”) for integration of virus scanners and spamassassin.
The Debian exim4 packages have their own web page, http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4. There is also a Debian-specific FAQ list. Information about the way the Debian packages are configured can be found in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz, which additionally contains information about the way the Debian binary packages are built. The very extensive upstream documentation is shipped in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz. To repeat the debconf-driven configuration process in a standard setup, invoke dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. There is a Debian-centered mailing list, pkg-exim4-users@lists.alioth.debian.org. Please ask Debian-specific questions there, and only write to the upstream exim-users mailing list if you are sure that your question is not Debian-specific. You can find the subscription web page on http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users
There are three methods to install exim4-daemon-heavy 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 exim4-daemon-heavy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install exim4-daemon-heavy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install exim4-daemon-heavy
Install exim4-daemon-heavy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install exim4-daemon-heavy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install exim4-daemon-heavy
Install exim4-daemon-heavy 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 exim4-daemon-heavy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install exim4-daemon-heavy
How To Uninstall exim4-daemon-heavy on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the exim4-daemon-heavy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove exim4-daemon-heavy
Uninstall exim4-daemon-heavy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall exim4-daemon-heavy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove exim4-daemon-heavy
Remove exim4-daemon-heavy Configurations and Data
To remove exim4-daemon-heavy configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge exim4-daemon-heavy
Remove exim4-daemon-heavy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove exim4-daemon-heavy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge exim4-daemon-heavy
Dependencies
exim4-daemon-heavy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install exim4-daemon-heavy package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.