How To Install mew 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 mew on Ubuntu.
What is mew
mew is:
Mew (Messaging in the Emacs World) is a user interface for text messages, multimedia messages (MIME), news articles and security functionality including PGP, S/MIME, SSH and SSL.
The features of Mew are as follows:
- POP, SMTP, NNTP and IMAP are supported.
- You can easily display a very complicated structured message.
- You can start to read messages before they are all fully listed.
- For refiling, default folders are neatly suggested.
- You can complete field names, e-mail addresses, receiver’s names, domain names and folder names.
- You can easily search messages with keywords etc.
- Thread, a mechanism to display the flow of messages, is supported.
There are three methods to install mew 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 mew Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mew using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mew
Install mew Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mew using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mew
Install mew 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 mew using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mew
How To Uninstall mew on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the mew package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mew
Uninstall mew And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mew and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mew
Remove mew Configurations and Data
To remove mew configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mew
Remove mew configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mew configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mew
Dependencies
mew have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mew package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.