How to Install and Uninstall notmuch Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "notmuch" package

Please follow the steps below to install notmuch on Kali Linux


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall notmuch on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                notmuch
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the notmuch package on Kali Linux

Package: notmuch
Version: 0.38.2-1
Installed-Size: 345
Maintainer: Carl Worth
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libnotmuch5 (= 0.38.2-1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.28.0), libgmime-3.0-0 (>= 3.0.4), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.6)
Recommends: elpa-notmuch | notmuch-vim | notmuch-mutt | alot, gnupg-agent, gpgsm
Suggests: mailscripts, notmuch-doc
Size: 182000
SHA256: a7db98cc60b71cae48beaaa8f23b61044698563c4aec2f899e05eaffb1d139e8
SHA1: 52e741fa2fad00bc6faa6c91f7f00033a44c0b56
MD5sum: f6416e7eadec6f4707bb082988f86cf9
Description: thread-based email index, search and tagging
Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
large collections of email messages in maildir or mh format. It uses
the Xapian library to provide fast, full-text search with a very
convenient search syntax.
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This package contains the notmuch command-line interface
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://notmuchmail.org/
Tag: implemented-in::c, implemented-in::lisp, interface::text-mode,
mail::user-agent, role::program, role::shared-lib, use::filtering,
use::searching, works-with::mail
Section: mail
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/notmuch/notmuch_0.38.2-1_amd64.deb