How To Install offlineimap on Fedora 34
offlineimap is Powerful IMAP/Maildir synchronization and reader support
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install offlineimap on Fedora 34.
What is offlineimap
OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify your e-mail reading. With OfflineIMAP, you can read the same mailbox from multiple computers. You get a current copy of your messages on each computer, and changes you make one place will be visible on all other systems. For instance, you can delete a message on your home computer, and it will appear deleted on your work computer as well. OfflineIMAP is also useful if you want to use a mail reader that does not have IMAP support, has poor IMAP support, or does not provide disconnected operation.
We can use yum or dnf to install offlineimap on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install offlineimap.
Install offlineimap 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 offlineimap using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install offlineimap
Install offlineimap 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 offlineimap using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install offlineimap
How To Uninstall offlineimap on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the offlineimap package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove offlineimap
offlineimap Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/offlineimap
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap-7.3.0-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/CustomConfig.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/__pycache__
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/__pycache__/accounts.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/__pycache__/imapserver.cpython-39.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/accounts.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/error.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Base.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Gmail.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/GmailMaildir.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/LocalStatus.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/LocalStatusSQLite.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/Maildir.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/UIDMaps.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/folder/__pycache__
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/imapserver.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/imaputil.py
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/repository/LocalStatus.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/repository/Maildir.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/repository/__init__.py
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/repository/__pycache__/LocalStatus.cpython-39.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/threadutil.py
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/ui/Noninteractive.py
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/utils/distro_utils.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/offlineimap/utils/stacktrace.py
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/API.html
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/dco.html
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/genindex.html
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/index.html
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/offlineimap.conf
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/offlineimap.conf.minimal
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/py-modindex.html
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/repository.html
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/search.html
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/ui.html
/usr/share/licenses/offlineimap
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/usr/share/man/man1/offlineimap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/offlineimapui.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install offlineimap on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.