How To Install mutt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mutt.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mutt.x86_64 is A text mode mail user agent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mutt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mutt.x86_64`

Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based MIME mail client. Mutt is highly configurable, and is well suited to the mail power user with advanced features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading, regular expression searches and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting groups of messages.

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

Install mutt.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 mutt.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mutt.x86_64

How To Uninstall mutt.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mutt.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mutt.x86_64

mutt.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/Muttrc
/etc/Muttrc.local
/usr/bin/mutt
/usr/bin/pgpewrap
/usr/bin/pgpring
/usr/bin/smime_keys
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/GPL
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/Mush.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/PGP-Notes.txt
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/Pine.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/README
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/README.SECURITY
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/README.SSL
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/TODO
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/Tin.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/UPDATING
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/advancedusage.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/applying-patches.txt
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/colors.default
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/colors.linux
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/configuration.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/devel-notes.txt
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/gettingstarted.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/gpg.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/index.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/intro.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/manual.txt
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/mimesupport.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/miscellany.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/mutt_ldap_query
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/optionalfeatures.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/patch-notes.txt
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/pgp2.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/pgp5.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/pgp6.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/reference.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/sample.mailcap
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/sample.muttrc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/sample.muttrc-tlr
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/Mush.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/Pine.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/Tin.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/ca-bundle.crt
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/colors.default
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/colors.linux
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/gpg.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.aix-3.2.5.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.aix-4.1.5.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.aix-4.2.0.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.aix-4.3.2.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.freebsd-3.3.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.glibc-2.1.3.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.glibc-2.1.90.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.hpux-10.01.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.hpux-10.20.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.hpux-11.00.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.irix-6.5.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.osf1-4.0a.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.osf1-4.0d.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.solaris-2.4.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.solaris-2.5.1.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.solaris-2.6-cjk.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.solaris-2.6.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/iconv/iconv.solaris-2.7.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/mutt_xtitle
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/pgp2.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/pgp5.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/pgp6.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/sample.mailcap
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/sample.muttrc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/sample.muttrc-tlr
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/smime.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/samples/smime_keys_test.pl
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/security.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/smime-notes.txt
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/smime.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.21/tuning.html
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/mutt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pgpewrap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pgpring.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/smime_keys.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/muttrc.local.5.gz

References

mutt.x86_64 website

Summary

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