How To Install alpine on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine
on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alpine.
Install alpine on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install alpine
using yum
by running the following command:
Install alpine on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install alpine
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall alpine on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the alpine
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.