How To Install evolution-ews on CentOS 8

evolution-ews is Evolution extension for Exchange Web Services

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-ews on CentOS 8.

What is evolution-ews

This package allows Evolution to interact with Microsoft Exchange servers, versions 2007 and later, through its Exchange Web Services (EWS) interface.

We can use yum or dnf to install evolution-ews on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install evolution-ews.

Install evolution-ews 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 evolution-ews using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install evolution-ews

Install evolution-ews 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 evolution-ews using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install evolution-ews

How To Uninstall evolution-ews on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the evolution-ews package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove evolution-ews

evolution-ews Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/8061ebdbc16e8d96f9da3ff49ac8f636239dda
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/9b64c686617efa6926c4de5eb2f4763fcecc2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/5fb2085352ede42ee3af272dc422e437d2b852
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/1f18b20fbf94bafa825d8ef8db5ad3bb32865b
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/b3adf6a42d1a5352fae7b17127a43c1f35ddde
/usr/lib/.build-id/da
/usr/lib/.build-id/da/bc7c5e33428296cc29f898c04cb1ee9725c721
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/50610f2e85958cc09375ac88130cdfd8d02f63
/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/addressbook-backends/libebookbackendews.so
/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/calendar-backends/libecalbackendews.so
/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/camel-providers/libcamelews.so
/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/camel-providers/libcamelews.urls
/usr/lib64/evolution-data-server/registry-modules/module-ews-backend.so
/usr/lib64/evolution-ews/libcamelews-priv.so
/usr/lib64/evolution-ews/libevolution-ews.so
/usr/lib64/evolution/modules/module-ews-configuration.so
/usr/share/doc/evolution-ews
/usr/share/doc/evolution-ews/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/evolution-ews/README
/usr/share/evolution-data-server/ews/windowsZones.xml
/usr/share/evolution/errors/module-ews-configuration.error
/usr/share/licenses/evolution-ews
/usr/share/licenses/evolution-ews/COPYING
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Evolution-ews.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-ews on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.