How To Install alpine on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine on CentOS 7. alpine is powerful, easy to use console email client

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.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install alpine using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alpine

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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install alpine using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alpine

How To Uninstall alpine on CentOS 7

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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.