How To Install swaks on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install swaks in Fedora 36. swaks is Command-line SMTP transaction tester

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install swaks on Fedora 36.

What is `swaks`

Swiss Army Knife SMTP various aspects of your SMTP server, including TLS and AUTH.

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

Install swaks 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 swaks using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install swaks

Install swaks 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 swaks using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install swaks

How To Uninstall swaks on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove swaks

swaks Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/swaks
/usr/share/doc/swaks
/usr/share/doc/swaks/Changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/swaks/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/swaks/recipes.txt
/usr/share/doc/swaks/ref.txt
/usr/share/licenses/swaks
/usr/share/licenses/swaks/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/swaks.1.gz

References

swaks website

Summary

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