How To Install libesmtp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install libesmtp.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. libesmtp.i686 is SMTP client library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libesmtp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `libesmtp.i686`

LibESMTP is a library to manage posting (or submission of) electronic mail using SMTP to a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as Exim. It may be used as part of a Mail User Agent (MUA) or another program that must be able to post electronic mail but where mail functionality is not the program’s primary purpose.

We can use yum to install libesmtp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libesmtp.i686.

Install libesmtp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install libesmtp.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libesmtp.i686

How To Uninstall libesmtp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libesmtp.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libesmtp.i686

libesmtp.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/esmtp-plugins
/usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-cram-md5.so
/usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-login.so
/usr/lib/esmtp-plugins/sasl-plain.so
/usr/lib/libesmtp.so.6
/usr/lib/libesmtp.so.6.1.6
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-1.0.6
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-1.0.6/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-1.0.6/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-1.0.6/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-1.0.6/Notes
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-1.0.6/README

References

libesmtp.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libesmtp.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.