How To Install sendemail on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendemail
on Fedora 34.
What is sendemail
SendEmail is a lightweight, completely command line based, SMTP e-mail client. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, batch files, Perl programs and web sites, but is also quite useful in many other contexts. SendEmail is written in Perl and is unique in that it requires no special modules. It has a straight forward interface, making it very easy to use.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sendemail
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sendemail.
Install sendemail 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 sendemail
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sendemail
Install sendemail 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 sendemail
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sendemail
How To Uninstall sendemail on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the sendemail
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sendemail
sendemail Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/sendEmail
/usr/bin/sendemail
/usr/share/doc/sendemail
/usr/share/doc/sendemail/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/sendemail/README
/usr/share/man/man1/sendEmail.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sendemail.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sendemail
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.