How To Install evolution-mapi on CentOS 8

evolution-mapi is Evolution extension for MS Exchange 2007 servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-mapi on CentOS 8.

What is evolution-mapi

This package allows Evolution to interact with MS Exchange 2007 servers.

We can use yum or dnf to install evolution-mapi on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install evolution-mapi.

Install evolution-mapi on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install evolution-mapi using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install evolution-mapi

Install evolution-mapi on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install evolution-mapi using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install evolution-mapi

How To Uninstall evolution-mapi on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the evolution-mapi package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove evolution-mapi

evolution-mapi Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/58e5f0a47c10441f7986bc44b662b67e2771b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/5b505f6e436f9bd13017df518878756bb14a7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/bce52502cd056fa1207271c14f5830ae1a75a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/8c0fc4e406ca054aa95c5c7322d7d2538fcbbd
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/ba115bb91e67c18af0038f943ec59f05a4c048
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/fe18a5820a0ef51b2f40d9451812a09134f62a
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/dd16c15e6125c0ff108008b8e636ca0d7f0185
/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/addressbook-backends/libebookbackendmapi.so
/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/calendar-backends/libecalbackendmapi.so
/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/camel-providers/libcamelmapi.so
/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/camel-providers/libcamelmapi.urls
/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/registry-modules/module-mapi-backend.so
/usr/lib64/evolution-mapi/libcamelmapi-priv.so
/usr/lib64/evolution-mapi/libevolution-mapi.so
/usr/lib64/evolution/modules/module-mapi-configuration.so
/usr/share/doc/evolution-mapi
/usr/share/doc/evolution-mapi/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/evolution-mapi/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/evolution-mapi/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/evolution-mapi/README
/usr/share/evolution-data-server/mapi
/usr/share/evolution-data-server/mapi/tz-ical-to-mapi
/usr/share/evolution-data-server/mapi/tz-mapi-to-ical
/usr/share/licenses/evolution-mapi
/usr/share/licenses/evolution-mapi/COPYING
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Evolution-mapi.metainfo.xml

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-mapi on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.