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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "spamassassin" package

This tutorial shows how to install spamassassin on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
    Copied


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt install
            
                        
                spamassassin
            
                    
    
    Copied

2. Uninstall "spamassassin" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall spamassassin on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                spamassassin
            
                    
    
    Copied


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
    Copied

3. Information about the spamassassin package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: spamassassin
Version: 4.0.0-6
Installed-Size: 4850
Maintainer: Noah Meyerhans
Architecture: all
Provides: libmail-spamassassin-perl
Depends: perl, libhtml-parser-perl, libsocket6-perl, adduser, libsys-hostname-long-perl, libarchive-tar-perl, libnet-dns-perl, libnetaddr-ip-perl, libhttp-date-perl, libmail-dkim-perl, libio-string-perl, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), libwww-perl | curl | w3m
Recommends: spamc, sa-compile (= 4.0.0-6), libmail-spf-perl, libsys-syslog-perl, gnupg, libbsd-resource-perl, libmail-dmarc-perl
Suggests: razor, libio-socket-ssl-perl, libdbi-perl, pyzor, libcompress-zlib-perl, libencode-detect-perl, libgeoip2-perl, libnet-patricia-perl
Description: Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
Description-md5: 57aa0023793e736d071444c63b04f053
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.spamassassin.org/
Tag: implemented-in::perl, interface::daemon, mail::filters, network::server,
protocol::smtp, role::program, use::checking, use::filtering,
use::scanning, works-with::mail
Section: mail
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/spamassassin/spamassassin_4.0.0-6_all.deb
Size: 1262492
MD5sum: 72ecbdaf4978be0bbc4cbc6b88e7a07d
SHA256: 6b77b23aa854e0b755c094d076511028e2c4a3ce1336ba622c37f35702b8b12e