How To Install alpine on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine on Rocky Linux 8. alpine is powerful, easy to use console email client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alpine.

Install alpine on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove alpine

alpine Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/pine.conf
/etc/pine.conf.fixed
/usr/bin/alpine
/usr/bin/pico
/usr/bin/pilot
/usr/bin/rpdump
/usr/bin/rpload
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/7a4982dd046b85ae91e2f21f5c0a201d2e2bd3
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/9c8e07cb3bf4ebbdd1a172bac848990a3aa9a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/8f31f9cacda16cacbe626a7bf7094da5150734
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/fecf401f6b6d8e59dc418341fa248a9b878efb
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/bc242dcc4e2392fc09055b8366eb8a7fc2f04e
/usr/share/doc/alpine
/usr/share/doc/alpine/README
/usr/share/doc/alpine/README.fedora
/usr/share/licenses/alpine
/usr/share/licenses/alpine/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/alpine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pico.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pilot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpload.1.gz

References

alpine website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.