How To Install dovecot-mysql on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-mysql on CentOS 8.
What is dovecot-mysql
This package provides the MySQL back end for dovecot-auth etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install dovecot-mysql on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dovecot-mysql.
Install dovecot-mysql on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dovecot-mysql using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dovecot-mysql
Install dovecot-mysql on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dovecot-mysql using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dovecot-mysql
How To Uninstall dovecot-mysql on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dovecot-mysql package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dovecot-mysql
dovecot-mysql Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/f64eba26cbc2640df72b81ad2192f1565ec1ab
/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so
/usr/lib64/dovecot/dict/libdriver_mysql.so
/usr/lib64/dovecot/libdriver_mysql.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-mysql on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.