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

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "notmuch" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install notmuch on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall notmuch on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the notmuch package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: notmuch
Priority: extra
Section: universe/mail
Installed-Size: 273
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Carl Worth
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.21-3ubuntu2
Depends: libnotmuch4 (= 0.21-3ubuntu2), libc6 (>= 2.14), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.28.0), libgmime-2.6-0 (>= 2.6.4), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.6)
Recommends: notmuch-emacs | notmuch-vim | notmuch-mutt | alot, gnupg-agent
Filename: pool/universe/n/notmuch/notmuch_0.21-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 129090
MD5sum: af9dccb3997963d8b584203defc1665e
SHA1: e159327ae5e7755e06c1a3f876b4cb350c6f75d1
SHA256: c5b76322ffe9ef3ed9c0c0f84c2f9e3b75108844a553db9a3a0c3626f7acf530
Description-en: 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: b9742d71f401790653f0272a6f8abd43
Homepage: http://notmuchmail.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu