How To Install libesmtp-devel on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libesmtp-devel on Rocky Linux 8.
What is libesmtp-devel
LibESMTP is a library to manage posting (or submission of) electronic mail using SMTP to a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as Exim. The libesmtp-devel package contains headers and development libraries necessary for building programs against libesmtp.
We can use yum or dnf to install libesmtp-devel on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libesmtp-devel.
Install libesmtp-devel 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 libesmtp-devel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libesmtp-devel
Install libesmtp-devel 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 libesmtp-devel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libesmtp-devel
How To Uninstall libesmtp-devel on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the libesmtp-devel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libesmtp-devel
libesmtp-devel Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/libesmtp-config
/usr/include/auth-client.h
/usr/include/auth-plugin.h
/usr/include/libesmtp.h
/usr/lib64/libesmtp.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libesmtp.pc
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel/examples
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel/examples/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel/examples/mail-file.c
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel/examples/test-mail
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libesmtp-devel on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.