How To Install mailcap.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mailcap.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. mailcap.noarch is Helper application and MIME type associations for file types

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mailcap.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mailcap.noarch`

The mailcap file is used by the metamail program. Metamail reads the mailcap file to determine how it should display non-text or multimedia material. Basically, mailcap associates a particular type of file with a particular program that a mail agent or other program can call in order to handle the file. Mailcap should be installed to allow certain programs to be able to handle non-text files. Also included in this package is the mime.types file which contains a list of MIME types and their filename “extension” associations, used by several applications e.g. to determine MIME types for filenames.

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

Install mailcap.noarch 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 mailcap.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mailcap.noarch

How To Uninstall mailcap.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mailcap.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mailcap.noarch

mailcap.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/mailcap
/etc/mime.types
/usr/share/doc/mailcap-2.1.41
/usr/share/doc/mailcap-2.1.41/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mailcap-2.1.41/NEWS
/usr/share/man/man4/mailcap.4.gz

References

mailcap.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mailcap.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.