How To Install alpine on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine on AlmaLinux 8.
What is alpine
Alpine – an Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News & Email – is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by Computing & Communications at the University of Washington. Though originally designed for inexperienced email users, Alpine supports many advanced features, and an ever-growing number of configuration and personal-preference options. Changes and enhancements over pine * Released under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0. * Internationalization built around new internal Unicode support. * Ground-up reorganization of source code around new “pith/” core routine library. * Ground-up reorganization of build and install procedure based on GNU Build System’s autotools.
We can use yum or dnf to install alpine on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alpine.
Install alpine on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install alpine using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install alpine
Install alpine on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install alpine using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install alpine
How To Uninstall alpine on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the alpine package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove alpine
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
