How To Install alpine on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is alpine

Alpine – an Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News & Email – is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by Computing & Communications at the University of Washington. Though originally designed for inexperienced email users, Alpine supports many advanced features, and an ever-growing number of configuration and personal-preference options. Changes and enhancements over pine * Released under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0. * Internationalization built around new internal Unicode support. * Ground-up reorganization of source code around new “pith/” core routine library. * Ground-up reorganization of build and install procedure based on GNU Build System’s autotools.

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

Install alpine 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 alpine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alpine

Install alpine 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 alpine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alpine

How To Uninstall alpine on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove alpine

alpine Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/pine.conf
/etc/pine.conf.fixed
/usr/bin/alpine
/usr/bin/pico
/usr/bin/pilot
/usr/bin/rpdump
/usr/bin/rpload
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/a8fa9ecab9156d5fd9f5caf657baed8aebebe7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/b1396fb8f82226856c322b333572833f53d86f
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/5951bb17e93a3945f4e7211e2e4f22a3dbcd7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/fecf4b3b34d833afc77b912c51261654c96afd
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/14e817dd615246ecb274f07c15a24d841ebdd4
/usr/share/doc/alpine
/usr/share/doc/alpine/README
/usr/share/doc/alpine/README.fedora
/usr/share/licenses/alpine
/usr/share/licenses/alpine/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/alpine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pico.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pilot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpload.1.gz

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Summary

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