How to remove (uninstall) Mutt Mail User Client from Devuan Linux

Written by Administrator on Thursday April 23, 2020

If you don't want Mutt Mail client to be present in your Devuan Linux system, just run these two commands in terminal:

$ sudo apt-get purge mutt

output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libgmime-2.6-0 libnotmuch4 libtokyocabinet9
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mutt*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 6,255 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 106765 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mutt (1.7.2-1+deb9u1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...
(Reading database ... 106662 files and directories currently installed.)
Purging configuration files for mutt (1.7.2-1+deb9u1) ...
dpkg: warning: while removing mutt, directory '/etc/Muttrc.d' not empty so not removed

and :

$ sudo apt autoremove mutt

output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'mutt' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libgmime-2.6-0 libnotmuch4 libtokyocabinet9
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 1,948 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 106654 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libnotmuch4 (0.23.7-3) ...
Removing libgmime-2.6-0:amd64 (2.6.22+dfsg2-1) ...
Removing libtokyocabinet9:amd64 (1.4.48-11+b1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u4) ...