How To Install mimetic on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mimetic on Rocky Linux 8. mimetic is A full featured C++ MIME library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mimetic on Rocky Linux 8.

What is mimetic

mimetic is an Email library (MIME) written in C++ designed to be easy to use and integrate but yet fast and efficient. It has been built around the standard lib. This means that you’ll not find yet another string class or list implementation and that you’ll feel comfortable in using this library from the very first time. Most classes functionalities and behavior will be clear if you ever studied MIME and its components; if you don’t know anything about Internet messages you’ll probably want to read some RFCs to understand the topic and, therefore, easily use the library whose names, whenever possible, overlap terms adopted in the standard RFC documents. At the very least 2046.

We can use yum or dnf to install mimetic on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mimetic.

Install mimetic on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install mimetic

Install mimetic on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mimetic using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mimetic

How To Uninstall mimetic on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the mimetic package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mimetic

mimetic Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/51e95c94c395e24a275602eeb0064b57471661
/usr/lib64/libmimetic.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmimetic.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/mimetic
/usr/share/doc/mimetic/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mimetic/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mimetic/README
/usr/share/licenses/mimetic
/usr/share/licenses/mimetic/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/mimetic/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mimetic on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.