How To Install geany-plugins-sendmail on CentOS 8

geany-plugins-sendmail is Send E-Mails from within Geany

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-sendmail on CentOS 8.

What is geany-plugins-sendmail

GeanySendMail is a little plugin to send a document as attachment using the preferred mail client from inside Geany. It is similar to the envelope symbol of most office tools and requires a mail client that supports remote calls.

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

Install geany-plugins-sendmail 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 geany-plugins-sendmail using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-sendmail

Install geany-plugins-sendmail 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 geany-plugins-sendmail using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-sendmail

How To Uninstall geany-plugins-sendmail on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the geany-plugins-sendmail package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove geany-plugins-sendmail

geany-plugins-sendmail Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/ddaafbf835c10a1e92e30f3fbc10f4631321df
/usr/lib64/geany/sendmail.so
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/sendmail
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/sendmail/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/sendmail/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/sendmail/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/sendmail/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/sendmail/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-sendmail on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.