How To Install emacs-bbdb on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-bbdb in Fedora 36. emacs-bbdb is A contact management utility for use with Emacs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-bbdb on Fedora 36.

What is emacs-bbdb

BBDB is the Insidious Big Brother Database contact manager for GNU Emacs. It provides an address book for email and snail mail addresses, phone numbers and the like. It can be linked with various Emacs mail clients (Message and Mail mode, Rmail, Gnus, MH-E, and VM). BBDB is fully customizable.

We can use yum or dnf to install emacs-bbdb on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install emacs-bbdb.

Install emacs-bbdb on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-bbdb using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install emacs-bbdb

Install emacs-bbdb on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install emacs-bbdb using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install emacs-bbdb

How To Uninstall emacs-bbdb on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the emacs-bbdb package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove emacs-bbdb

emacs-bbdb Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/bbdb
/usr/share/bbdb/bbdb.sty
/usr/share/doc/emacs-bbdb
/usr/share/doc/emacs-bbdb/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/emacs-bbdb/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/emacs-bbdb/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/emacs-bbdb/README
/usr/share/doc/emacs-bbdb/TODO
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-anniv.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-anniv.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-com.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-com.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-gnus-aux.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-gnus-aux.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-gnus.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-gnus.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-ispell.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-ispell.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-loaddefs.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-message.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-message.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-mhe.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-mhe.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-migrate.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-migrate.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-mua.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-mua.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-pgp.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-pgp.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-rmail.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-rmail.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-sc.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-sc.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-site.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-site.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-snarf.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-snarf.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-tex.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-tex.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-vm-aux.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-vm-aux.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-vm.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb-vm.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/bbdb.elc
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/bbdb-init.el
/usr/share/licenses/emacs-bbdb
/usr/share/licenses/emacs-bbdb/COPYING
/usr/share/metainfo/emacs-bbdb.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install emacs-bbdb on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).