How To Install aerc on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aerc on Fedora 34.
What is aerc
Aerc is an email client that runs in your terminal. It’s highly efficient and extensible, perfect for the discerning hacker.
We can use yum or dnf to install aerc on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aerc.
Install aerc 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 aerc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install aerc
Install aerc 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 aerc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install aerc
How To Uninstall aerc on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the aerc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove aerc
aerc Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/aerc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/9ed32a947028829fd40ec8c2f2e1f31709bb1f
/usr/share/aerc
/usr/share/aerc/accounts.conf
/usr/share/aerc/aerc.conf
/usr/share/aerc/binds.conf
/usr/share/aerc/filters
/usr/share/aerc/filters/hldiff
/usr/share/aerc/filters/html
/usr/share/aerc/filters/plaintext
/usr/share/aerc/stylesets
/usr/share/aerc/stylesets/default
/usr/share/aerc/templates
/usr/share/aerc/templates/forward_as_body
/usr/share/aerc/templates/quoted_reply
/usr/share/doc/aerc
/usr/share/doc/aerc/README.md
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc-config.5.scd
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc-imap.5.scd
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc-maildir.5.scd
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc-notmuch.5.scd
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc-search.1.scd
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc-sendmail.5.scd
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc-smtp.5.scd
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc-stylesets.7.scd
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc-templates.7.scd
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc-tutorial.7.scd
/usr/share/doc/aerc/doc/aerc.1.scd
/usr/share/licenses/aerc
/usr/share/licenses/aerc/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/aerc-search.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/aerc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aerc-config.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aerc-imap.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aerc-maildir.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aerc-notmuch.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aerc-sendmail.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/aerc-smtp.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/aerc-stylesets.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/aerc-templates.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/aerc-tutorial.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aerc on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.