How to Install Rambox on Linuxmint 19

To install Rambox On Linux Mint 19

Installation procedure

Check the Linuxmint version by using the following command

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Release: 19
Codename: tara

Install the gdebi for the installation of Debian packages.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt install gdebi -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
gdebi-core
The following packages will be upgraded:
gdebi gdebi-core
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 629 not upgraded.
Need to get 131 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com tara/upstream amd64 gdebi all 0.9.5.7xmint8 [35.0 kB]
Get:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com tara/upstream amd64 gdebi-core all 0.9.5.7xmint8 [95.7 kB]
Fetched 131 kB in 2s (76.8 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 243582 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gdebi_0.9.5.7xmint8_all.deb ...
Unpacking gdebi (0.9.5.7xmint8) over (0.9.5.7xmint7) ...
Preparing to unpack .../gdebi-core_0.9.5.7xmint8_all.deb ...
Unpacking gdebi-core (0.9.5.7xmint8) over (0.9.5.7xmint7) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23+linuxmint3) ...
Setting up gdebi-core (0.9.5.7xmint8) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Setting up gdebi (0.9.5.7xmint8) ...

Download the rambox installation package using wget command.

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://github.com/ramboxapp/community-edition/releases/download/0.6.8/Rambox-0.6.8-linux-amd64.deb
--2019-06-22 13:33:26-- https://github.com/ramboxapp/community-edition/releases/download/0.6.8/Rambox-0.6.8-linux-amd64.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.234.210.38
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.234.210.38|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/56087776/a5b1ad00-8c83-11e9-8f86-312390aa36f2?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20190622%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190622T080335Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=eadf5dee3e2a443a44ea4ef1fd7b45236c245cc4861c3f3b7ddb4042da64d2b2&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3DRambox-0.6.8-linux-amd64.deb&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream [following]
--2019-06-22 13:33:27-- https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/56087776/a5b1ad00-8c83-11e9-8f86-312390aa36f2?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20190622%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20190622T080335Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=eadf5dee3e2a443a44ea4ef1fd7b45236c245cc4861c3f3b7ddb4042da64d2b2&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3DRambox-0.6.8-linux-amd64.deb&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
Resolving github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)... 52.216.171.123
Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.216.171.123|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 58880790 (56M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘Rambox-0.6.8-linux-amd64.deb’

Rambox-0.6.8-linux-amd64.deb 100%[===================================================>] 56.15M 1.01MB/s in 2m 26s

2019-06-22 13:35:54 (394 KB/s) - ‘Rambox-0.6.8-linux-amd64.deb’ saved [58880790/58880790]

Install the Rambox by using the gdebi command.

root@linuxhelp:~# gdebi Rambox-0.6.8-linux-amd64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done

Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
Selecting previously unselected package rambox.
(Reading database ... 243582 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack Rambox-0.6.8-linux-amd64.deb ...
Unpacking rambox (0.6.8-170) ...
Setting up rambox (0.6.8-170) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23+linuxmint3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...

Search for Rambox application.

The Rambox application looks like the one displayed in the following image.

You can add the service by using your account details.

With this, the installation of Rambox on Linux Mint 19 Comes to an end.