How To Install mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 is An X Window System fax viewer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mgetty-viewfax.x86_64`

Viewfax displays the fax files received using mgetty in an X11 window. Viewfax is capable of zooming in and out on the displayed fax.

We can use yum to install mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mgetty-viewfax.x86_64.

Install mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 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 mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mgetty-viewfax.x86_64

How To Uninstall mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mgetty-viewfax.x86_64

mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/viewfax
/usr/lib64/mgetty+sendfax
/usr/lib64/mgetty+sendfax/viewfax.tif
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-viewfax-1.1.36
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-viewfax-1.1.36/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-viewfax-1.1.36/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mgetty-viewfax-1.1.36/README
/usr/share/man/man1/viewfax.1.gz

References

mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mgetty-viewfax.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.