How To Install mutt on CentOS 8

mutt is A text mode mail user agent

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mutt on CentOS 8.

What is `mutt`

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 or dnf to install mutt on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mutt.

Install mutt 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 mutt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mutt

Install mutt 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 mutt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mutt

How To Uninstall mutt on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove mutt

mutt Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/Muttrc
/etc/Muttrc.local
/usr/bin/mutt
/usr/bin/pgpewrap
/usr/bin/pgpring
/usr/bin/smime_keys
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/7f4e73e2b05eec1d081535dc566409c13e99a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/f6e9fbc90cb5e2f034fc861b19d0af509a9d0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/eeb5e183e799641566352238bbb377b9fff096
/usr/share/doc/mutt
/usr/share/doc/mutt/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mutt/Mush.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mutt/Pine.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/README
/usr/share/doc/mutt/README.SECURITY
/usr/share/doc/mutt/README.SSL
/usr/share/doc/mutt/Tin.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/UPDATING
/usr/share/doc/mutt/colors.default
/usr/share/doc/mutt/colors.linux
/usr/share/doc/mutt/gpg.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt
/usr/share/doc/mutt/mutt_ldap_query
/usr/share/doc/mutt/pgp2.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/pgp5.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/pgp6.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.mailcap
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.muttrc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.muttrc-compress
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.muttrc-sidebar
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.muttrc-tlr
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.vimrc-sidebar
/usr/share/doc/mutt/smime-notes.txt
/usr/share/doc/mutt/smime.rc
/usr/share/licenses/mutt
/usr/share/licenses/mutt/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/mutt/GPL
/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 website

Summary

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