How To Install swaks on Fedora 34

swaks is Command-line SMTP transaction tester

Introduction

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

What is swaks

Swiss Army Knife SMTP various aspects of your SMTP server, including TLS and AUTH.

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

Install swaks 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 swaks using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install swaks

Install swaks 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 swaks using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install swaks

How To Uninstall swaks on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove swaks

swaks Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/swaks
/usr/share/doc/swaks
/usr/share/doc/swaks/Changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/swaks/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/swaks/recipes.txt
/usr/share/doc/swaks/ref.txt
/usr/share/licenses/swaks
/usr/share/licenses/swaks/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/swaks.1.gz

References

Summary

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