How To Install prayer on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
3 minutes • 439 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install prayer on Ubuntu.
What is prayer
prayer is:
Prayer is yet another Webmail interface.
It is unusual in that it is a complete, standalone, HTTP server and proxy rather a Apache/mod_php plugin. Prayer maintains persistent connections to the IMAP server and is written entirely in C. Consequently it is much faster than most open source Webmail interfaces and puts very little load on either the machines running the Web server or the backend IMAP servers (even if traditional Unix format mailfolders are in use).
Prayer has very few external dependencies as user preferences are stored on the IMAP server rather than in a SQL database. It does however implement a full range of features and user preference settings.
There are three methods to install prayer 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 prayer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install prayer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install prayer
Install prayer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install prayer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install prayer
Install prayer 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 prayer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install prayer
How To Uninstall prayer on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the prayer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove prayer
Uninstall prayer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall prayer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove prayer
Remove prayer Configurations and Data
To remove prayer configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge prayer
Remove prayer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove prayer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge prayer
Dependencies
prayer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install prayer package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.