How to Install and Uninstall sendmail-base Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: July 08,2024

1. Install "sendmail-base" package

This is a short guide on how to install sendmail-base on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                sendmail-base
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "sendmail-base" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall sendmail-base on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                sendmail-base
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the sendmail-base package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: sendmail-base
Source: sendmail
Version: 8.15.2-14~deb10u1
Installed-Size: 847
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: all
Depends: m4, make, adduser, netbase, lockfile-progs, perl:any
Suggests: sendmail-doc, ca-certificates, logcheck, logrotate, resolvconf
Description: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent (arch independent files)
Description-md5: 1a36418cb6016085148007182cf41ed0
Homepage: http://www.sendmail.org
Tag: interface::daemon, mail::smtp, mail::transport-agent, protocol::ipv6,
protocol::smtp, role::app-data, role::program, works-with::mail
Section: mail
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-base_8.15.2-14~deb10u1_all.deb
Size: 343424
MD5sum: 4e41b7b0e9be6892c79ce087bdf29718
SHA256: 482c6b0b8717cb97c10db8cc5337a1c9cf79c441b7f557e08635fb2551dc3a28