How to Install and Uninstall dovecot-core Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 10,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "dovecot-core" package

Please follow the instructions below to install dovecot-core on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "dovecot-core" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall dovecot-core on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the dovecot-core package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: dovecot-core
Source: dovecot
Version: 1:2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1
Installed-Size: 11514
Maintainer: Dovecot Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: dovecot-common (<< 1:2.0.14-2~), mailavenger (<< 0.8.1-4)
Provides: dovecot-abi-2.3.abiv19, dovecot-common
Depends: adduser, libpam-runtime, lsb-base, openssl, ssl-cert, ucf, libapparmor1 (>= 2.7.0~beta1+bzr1772), libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.36), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libcrypt1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libexttextcat-2.0-0 (>= 3.3.0), libicu72 (>= 72.1~rc-1~), liblua5.4-0 (>= 5.4.4), liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r130), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libsodium23 (>= 1.0.13), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libstemmer0d (>= 0+svn527), libsystemd0, libtirpc3 (>= 1.0.2), libunwind8, libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~), libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Suggests: dovecot-gssapi, dovecot-imapd, dovecot-ldap, dovecot-lmtpd, dovecot-lucene, dovecot-managesieved, dovecot-mysql, dovecot-pgsql, dovecot-pop3d, dovecot-sieve, dovecot-solr, dovecot-sqlite, dovecot-submissiond, ntp
Breaks: dovecot-common (<< 1:2.0.14-2~), mailavenger (<< 0.8.1-4)
Description: secure POP3/IMAP server - core files
Description-md5: 42825422b1ef9e3a592c94dfafed375c
Homepage: https://dovecot.org/
Section: mail
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/dovecot/dovecot-core_2.3.19.1+dfsg1-2.1_amd64.deb
Size: 4486248
MD5sum: 78771b4a4a8dae16751bd78458828bba
SHA256: fab86cf575dced3e372bc67c1789481e328dbc5d591ac495924139fbc9868614