How To Install lumail on Fedora 34

lumail is Modern console-based e-mail client

Introduction

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

What is lumail

Lumail is a modern console-based email-client, with fully integrated scripting, implemented in the Lua programming language.

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

Install lumail 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 lumail using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lumail

Install lumail 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 lumail using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lumail

How To Uninstall lumail on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove lumail

lumail Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/lumail
/etc/lumail/lumail.lua
/usr/bin/lumail2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/72b6fe75eb58e3efdfcb36e1f290b50070bdd2
/usr/lib/lumail
/usr/lib/lumail/functional.lua
/usr/lib/lumail/gpg.lua
/usr/lib/lumail/keymap.lua
/usr/lib/lumail/life.lua
/usr/lib/lumail/progress_bar.lua
/usr/lib/lumail/stack.lua
/usr/lib/lumail/string_utilities.lua
/usr/lib/lumail/table_utilities.lua
/usr/lib/lumail/threader.lua
/usr/share/doc/lumail
/usr/share/doc/lumail/API.md
/usr/share/doc/lumail/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/lumail/GPG.md
/usr/share/doc/lumail/HACKING.md
/usr/share/doc/lumail/IMAP.md
/usr/share/doc/lumail/README.md
/usr/share/doc/lumail/doxygen.md
/usr/share/licenses/lumail
/usr/share/licenses/lumail/LICENSE
/usr/share/lumail
/usr/share/lumail/Lumail.pm
/usr/share/lumail/imap-proxy

References

Summary

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