How To Install dovecot-fts-xapian on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-fts-xapian on Fedora 36.
What is dovecot-fts-xapian
This project intends to provide a straightforward, simple and maintenance free, way to configure FTS plugin for Dovecot, leveraging the efforts by the Xapian.org team. This effort came after Dovecot team decided to deprecate “fts_squat” included in the dovecot core, and due to the complexity of the Solr plugin capabilitles, un-needed for most users.
We can use yum or dnf to install dovecot-fts-xapian on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dovecot-fts-xapian.
Install dovecot-fts-xapian on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install dovecot-fts-xapian using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dovecot-fts-xapian
Install dovecot-fts-xapian on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install dovecot-fts-xapian using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dovecot-fts-xapian
How To Uninstall dovecot-fts-xapian on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the dovecot-fts-xapian package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dovecot-fts-xapian
dovecot-fts-xapian Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/968c7ecf96d5c7ab76c592b2088917487a77fc
/usr/lib64/dovecot/lib21_fts_xapian_plugin.so
/usr/share/doc/dovecot-fts-xapian
/usr/share/doc/dovecot-fts-xapian/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/dovecot-fts-xapian/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/dovecot-fts-xapian
/usr/share/licenses/dovecot-fts-xapian/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-fts-xapian on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).