How to Install and Uninstall balsa Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "balsa" package

This is a short guide on how to install balsa on Kali Linux


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

Learn how to uninstall balsa on Kali Linux:


    
        
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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 Kali Linux

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
Size: 746888
SHA256: 6188be62ab063697d0ce955692640ce5d5e35261ac21d41f0aea66e989632abd
SHA1: e20df8bacfe455bc191834cf30847deaf44e514b
MD5sum: 6e139580f06c73eac2fb411559439650
Description: e-mail client for GNOME
Balsa is a highly configurable and robust mail client for the GNOME desktop.
It supports both POP3 and IMAP servers as well as the mbox, maildir and mh
local mailbox formats. Balsa also supports SMTP and/or the use of a local MTA
such as Sendmail.
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Some of Balsa's other features include:
* Allowing nested mailboxes
* Printing
* Spell Checking
* Multi-threaded mail retrieval
* MIME support (view images inline, save parts)
* GPE Palmtop, LDAP, LDIF and vCard address book support
* Multiple character sets for composing and reading messages
* File attachments on outgoing messages
* GPG/OpenPGP mail signing and encryption
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Support for Kerberos and SSL has been enabled in this package.
Description-md5:
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