How To Install hoststat on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install sendmail-bin

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is hoststat and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install hoststat on Ubuntu 22.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install hoststat using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install hoststat using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sendmail-bin

Install hoststat using apt

Because hoststat is available in Ubuntu 22.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install hoststat using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sendmail-bin

Install hoststat 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 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install hoststat by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sendmail-bin

How to upgrade (update) a single package hoststat using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the hoststat, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install sendmail-bin

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install sendmail-bin

How To Uninstall hoststat from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the hoststat package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sendmail-bin

Uninstall hoststat and all its dependencies

To uninstall hoststat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sendmail-bin

Remove hoststat with all configurations and data

To remove hoststat configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sendmail-bin

Remove hoststat completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to hoststat package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sendmail-bin

Extra info and code examples

Sendmail is an alternative Mail Transport Agent (MTA) for Debian. It is suitable for handling sophisticated mail configurations, although this means that its configuration can also be complex. Fortunately, simple things can be done easily, and complex things are possible, even if not easily understood ;) Sendmail is the *ONLY* MTA with a Turing complete language to control *ALL* aspects of delivery! Sendmail provides Security and SPAM/UCE/UBE protection via several means. Sendmail includes *no* Mail User Agents (MUA), you'll have to pick from the plethora of available MUAs (mutt, vm, etc.) This package supports REGEX, DB, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS maps, and has enabled TCPWrappers, IPv6, LockFile, SMTP AUTH(SASL), STARTTLS(SSL).

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install hoststat using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the hoststat from Ubuntu 22.04.

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