How To Install evolution-pst on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-pst on CentOS 8.
What is evolution-pst
This package contains the plugin to import Microsoft Personal Storage Table (PST) files used by Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange.
We can use yum or dnf to install evolution-pst on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install evolution-pst.
Install evolution-pst 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-pst using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install evolution-pst
Install evolution-pst 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-pst using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install evolution-pst
How To Uninstall evolution-pst on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the evolution-pst package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove evolution-pst
evolution-pst Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/b52d480c5879c82368a80f224561603f85e570
/usr/lib64/evolution/plugins/liborg-gnome-pst-import.so
/usr/lib64/evolution/plugins/org-gnome-pst-import.eplug
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Evolution-pst.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-pst on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.