How to Install and Uninstall balsa Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: September 20,2024

You can also install and uninstall the balsa on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "balsa" package

Please follow the steps below to install balsa on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                balsa
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "balsa" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall balsa on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                balsa
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the balsa package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: balsa
Version: 2.6.4-2
Installed-Size: 1977
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: imap-client, mail-reader
Depends: balsa-data (= 2.6.4-2), pinentry-gnome3 | pinentry-x11, libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcanberra-gtk3-0 (>= 0.25), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libcompfaceg1, libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.70.0), libgmime-3.0-0 (>= 3.2.6), libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0), libgpgme11 (>= 1.5.0), libgspell-1-2 (>= 1.8.2), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.24.0), libgtksourceview-4-0 (>= 2.91.4), libical3 (>= 3.0.0), libldap-2.5-0 (>= 2.5.4), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0 (>= 2.31.1), libxapp1 (>= 1.6.2), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Recommends: ca-certificates, gpgsm, python3-html2text, yelp
Description: e-mail client for GNOME
Description-md5: 8fd5765c122138010ca60ac02a294a55
Homepage: https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::graphical, interface::x11, mail::imap,
mail::pop, mail::user-agent, network::client, protocol::imap,
protocol::pop3, protocol::smtp, role::program, scope::application,
suite::gnome, suite::gnu, uitoolkit::gtk, works-with::mail,
x11::application
Section: gnome
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/balsa/balsa_2.6.4-2_amd64.deb
Size: 746888
MD5sum: 6e139580f06c73eac2fb411559439650
SHA256: 6188be62ab063697d0ce955692640ce5d5e35261ac21d41f0aea66e989632abd