How To Install mailcap on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailcap on Fedora 34.
What is mailcap
The mailcap file is used by the metamail program. Metamail reads the mailcap file to determine how it should display non-text or multimedia material. Basically, mailcap associates a particular type of file with a particular program that a mail agent or other program can call in order to handle the file. Mailcap should be installed to allow certain programs to be able to handle non-text files. Also included in this package is the mime.types file which contains a list of MIME types and their filename “extension” associations, used by several applications e.g. to determine MIME types for filenames.
We can use yum or dnf to install mailcap on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mailcap.
Install mailcap 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 mailcap using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mailcap
Install mailcap 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 mailcap using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mailcap
How To Uninstall mailcap on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the mailcap package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mailcap
mailcap Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/mailcap
/etc/mime.types
/usr/share/doc/mailcap
/usr/share/doc/mailcap/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/mailcap
/usr/share/licenses/mailcap/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/mailcap.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailcap on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.