How To Install mairix on Fedora 34

mairix is A program for indexing and searching email messages

Introduction

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

What is mairix

mairix is a program for indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir, MH or mbox folders.

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

Install mairix 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 mairix using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mairix

Install mairix 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 mairix using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mairix

How To Uninstall mairix on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove mairix

mairix Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/mairix
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/f849f29590d31b66b43c5ee52e6aa974250564
/usr/share/doc/mairix
/usr/share/doc/mairix/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
/usr/share/doc/mairix/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mairix/README
/usr/share/doc/mairix/dotmairixrc.eg
/usr/share/licenses/mairix
/usr/share/licenses/mairix/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mairix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mairixrc.5.gz

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Summary

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