How To Install mail-notification on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mail-notification in Fedora 36. mail-notification is Status icon that informs you if you have new mail

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mail-notification on Fedora 36.

What is mail-notification

Mail Notification is a status icon (aka tray icon) that informs you if you have new mail. It works with system trays implementing the freedesktop.org System Tray Specification, such as the GNOME Panel Notification Area, the Xfce Notification Area and the KDE System Tray.

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

Install mail-notification 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 mail-notification using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mail-notification

Install mail-notification 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 mail-notification using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mail-notification

How To Uninstall mail-notification on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the mail-notification package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mail-notification

mail-notification Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/gconf/schemas/mail-notification.schemas
/usr/bin/mail-notification
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/287500e8bccf7b85e473997cfb8e64e00a37d5
/usr/share/applications/mail-notification-properties.desktop
/usr/share/doc/mail-notification
/usr/share/doc/mail-notification/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/mail-notification/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mail-notification/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mail-notification/README
/usr/share/doc/mail-notification/TODO
/usr/share/gnome/autostart/mail-notification.desktop
/usr/share/gnome/help/mail-notification
/usr/share/gnome/help/mail-notification/C
/usr/share/gnome/help/mail-notification/C/documentation-license.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/mail-notification/C/figures
/usr/share/gnome/help/mail-notification/C/figures/mail.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/mail-notification/C/mail-notification.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/mail-notification/C/software-license.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/mail-notification.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/mail-notification.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/mail-notification.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/mail-notification.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/mail-notification.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/mail-notification.svg
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@Latn/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/mail-notification.mo
/usr/share/mail-notification
/usr/share/mail-notification/gmail.png
/usr/share/mail-notification/hotmail.png
/usr/share/mail-notification/logo.png
/usr/share/mail-notification/mailbox-properties-dialog.ui
/usr/share/mail-notification/new-mail.wav
/usr/share/mail-notification/properties-dialog.ui
/usr/share/mail-notification/yahoo.png
/usr/share/omf/mail-notification
/usr/share/omf/mail-notification/mail-notification-C.omf

References

Summary

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