Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install balsa on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is balsa
balsa is:
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.
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
Support for Kerberos and SSL has been enabled in this package.
Package: balsa
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.6.0-2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/gnome
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 3096
Provides: imap-client, mail-reader
Depends: pinentry-gnome3 | pinentry-x11, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcanberra-gtk3-0 (>= 0.25), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libcompfaceg1, libfribidi0 (>= 0.19.2), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.1), libgmime-3.0-0 (>= 3.2.6), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.12), libgpgme11 (>= 1.5.0), libgspell-1-2 (>= 1.8.2), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), libgtksourceview-3.0-1 (>= 3.2.0), libical3 (>= 3.0.0), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), 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-4.0-37 (>= 2.15.1), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4)
Recommends: ca-certificates, gpgsm, python3-html2text, yelp
Filename: pool/universe/b/balsa/balsa_2.6.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 976556
MD5sum: 282c53a11b96b8d2a3c701b71c9f7cb7
SHA1: f225e8d223f14a11a672f33a8b6caf9d6bd79fa5
SHA256: 7171d852433352711b5a50efc6833d71616ac5f8456354161e2af35f559792ff
Homepage: https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/
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.
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
Support for Kerberos and SSL has been enabled in this package.
There are three methods to install balsa on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install balsa Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install balsa using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install balsa
Install balsa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install balsa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install balsa
Install balsa Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install balsa using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install balsa
How To Uninstall balsa on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the balsa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove balsa
Uninstall balsa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall balsa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove balsa
Remove balsa Configurations and Data
To remove balsa configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge balsa
Remove balsa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove balsa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge balsa
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install balsa package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
