How To Install sylfilter on Fedora 34

sylfilter is A generic message filter library and command-line tools A generic message filter library and command-line tools

Introduction

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

What is `sylfilter`

This is SylFilter, a generic message filter library, and some command-line tools that provide a Bayesian filter which is very popular as a spam filtering algorithm. SylFilter is also internationalized and can be applied to any languages. The SylFilter library provides simple but powerful C APIs and can be used from C programs. SylFilter can be used as a command-line tool inside a junk filter mail program similar to major tools such as bogofilter and bsfilter etc. For further details, see http sylfilter 0.8 20.fc34 x86_64 40 k sylfilter-0.8-20.fc34.src.rpm fedora A generic message filter library and command-line tools http BSD This is SylFilter, a generic message filter library, and some command-line tools that provide a Bayesian filter which is very popular as a spam filtering algorithm. SylFilter is also internationalized and can be applied to any languages. The SylFilter library provides simple but powerful C APIs and can be used from C programs. SylFilter can be used as a command-line tool inside a junk filter mail program similar to major tools such as bogofilter and bsfilter etc. For further details, see http

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

Install sylfilter 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 sylfilter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sylfilter

Install sylfilter 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 sylfilter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sylfilter

How To Uninstall sylfilter on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sylfilter

sylfilter Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/sylfilter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/12affe78b6d12a646c61c88922b6d6eecade05
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/2b6f1909f3b43ed5ba1f63777c35aab8a8a215
/usr/lib/libsylfilter.so
/usr/lib/libsylfilter.so.0
/usr/lib/libsylfilter.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/sylfilter
/usr/share/doc/sylfilter/README
/usr/share/licenses/sylfilter
/usr/share/licenses/sylfilter/COPYING
/usr/bin/sylfilter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/9c294c5b8b6129bab13b55fdfb2e17e156ea2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/89a3c6fc7d5155bfcfb6b80dfd475f9026bcb3
/usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so
/usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0
/usr/lib64/libsylfilter.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/sylfilter
/usr/share/doc/sylfilter/README
/usr/share/licenses/sylfilter
/usr/share/licenses/sylfilter/COPYING

References

[sylfilter website](http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylfilter/ http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/sylfilter/)

Summary

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