How To Install php-pear-Net-SMTP on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear-Net-SMTP on Rocky Linux 8. php-pear-Net-SMTP is Provides an implementation of the SMTP protocol

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear-Net-SMTP on Rocky Linux 8.

What is php-pear-Net-SMTP

Provides an implementation of the SMTP protocol using PEAR’s Net_Socket class. php-pear-Net-SMTP can optionally use package “php-pear-Auth-SASL”.

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

Install php-pear-Net-SMTP 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 php-pear-Net-SMTP using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install php-pear-Net-SMTP

Install php-pear-Net-SMTP 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 php-pear-Net-SMTP using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install php-pear-Net-SMTP

How To Uninstall php-pear-Net-SMTP on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the php-pear-Net-SMTP package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove php-pear-Net-SMTP

php-pear-Net-SMTP Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/pear/Net_SMTP
/usr/share/doc/pear/Net_SMTP/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/pear/Net_SMTP/docs
/usr/share/doc/pear/Net_SMTP/docs/guide.txt
/usr/share/doc/pear/Net_SMTP/examples
/usr/share/doc/pear/Net_SMTP/examples/basic.php
/usr/share/pear/Net/SMTP.php
/usr/share/tests/pear/Net_SMTP
/usr/share/tests/pear/Net_SMTP/tests
/usr/share/tests/pear/Net_SMTP/tests/auth.phpt
/usr/share/tests/pear/Net_SMTP/tests/basic.phpt
/usr/share/tests/pear/Net_SMTP/tests/config.php.dist
/usr/share/tests/pear/Net_SMTP/tests/quotedata.phpt
/var/lib/pear/pkgxml/php-pear-Net-SMTP.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-pear-Net-SMTP on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.