How To Install abook on Fedora 34

abook is Text-based addressbook program for mutt

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abook on Fedora 34.

What is abook

Abook is a small and powerful text-based addressbook program designed for use with the mutt mail client.

We can use yum or dnf to install abook on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abook.

Install abook on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abook using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abook

Install abook on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abook using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abook

How To Uninstall abook on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove abook

abook Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/abook
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/c5f15449967a9e972f2e41f970e0280b2b0143
/usr/share/doc/abook
/usr/share/doc/abook/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/abook/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/abook/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/abook/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/abook/README
/usr/share/doc/abook/RELEASE_NOTES
/usr/share/doc/abook/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/abook/TODO
/usr/share/doc/abook/sample.abookrc
/usr/share/licenses/abook
/usr/share/licenses/abook/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/abook.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_TIME/abook.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/abook.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_TIME/abook.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/abook.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_TIME/abook.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/abook.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_TIME/abook.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/abook.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_TIME/abook.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/abook.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/abookrc.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abook on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.