How To Install tnef on Fedora 34

tnef is Extract files from email attachments like WINMAIL.DAT

Introduction

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

What is tnef

This application provides a way to unpack Microsoft MS-TNEF MIME attachments. It operates like tar in order to unpack files of type “application/ms-tnef”, which may have been placed into the MS-TNEF attachment instead of being attached separately. Such files may have attachment names similar to WINMAIL.DAT

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

Install tnef 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 tnef using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tnef

Install tnef 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 tnef using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tnef

How To Uninstall tnef on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove tnef

tnef Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/tnef
/usr/bin/tnef.sh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/5f9df5e8ae767af27f1c6a35636ed92e01e443
/usr/share/doc/tnef
/usr/share/doc/tnef/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tnef/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tnef/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tnef/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tnef/README.md
/usr/share/doc/tnef/THANKS
/usr/share/man/man1/tnef.1.gz

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Summary

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