How to Install and Uninstall balsa Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: November 26,2024

1. Install "balsa" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install balsa on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall balsa on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: balsa
Priority: optional
Section: universe/gnome
Installed-Size: 8518
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.4.12-2
Provides: imap-client, mail-reader
Depends: gconf-service, libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.32.1-3~), libc6 (>= 2.16), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcanberra-gtk0 (>= 0.2), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libcompfaceg1, libenchant1c2a (>= 1.6.0), libesmtp6, libgconf-2-4 (>= 3.2.5), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgmime-2.6-0 (>= 2.6.4), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 2.22.2), libgnome2-0 (>= 2.17.3), libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.22.0), libgpgme11 (>= 1.2.0), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.10+dfsg~), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgtksourceview2.0-0 (>= 2.10.0), libgtkspell0 (>= 2.0.10), libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 (>= 1.5.1), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libnm-glib4 (>= 0.7.999), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), liborbit-2-0 (>= 1:2.14.10), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libunique-1.0-0 (>= 1.0.2), libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 (>= 1.3.10), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), gnome-icon-theme
Recommends: aspell | ispell, yelp
Suggests: ca-certificates, lbdb
Filename: pool/universe/b/balsa/balsa_2.4.12-2_amd64.deb
Size: 2459878
MD5sum: 57caf193e0848a5ce8f33a1cb7eb670c
SHA1: c0bb9b5ba8f042d5def4e9e1e0eb01db0a570206
SHA256: 05183cd9073d028583f75e226aec39ec8e3cb67599bf77ef1e829dc7e3f04fb7
Description-en: 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: 8fd5765c122138010ca60ac02a294a55
Homepage: http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu