How To Install emacs-bbdb on Fedora 36
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/).