How To Install libreport-plugin-mailx on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreport-plugin-mailx on Rocky Linux 8. libreport-plugin-mailx is libreport’s mailx reporter plugin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreport-plugin-mailx on Rocky Linux 8.

What is libreport-plugin-mailx

The simple reporter plugin which sends a report via mailx to a specified email address.

We can use yum or dnf to install libreport-plugin-mailx on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libreport-plugin-mailx.

Install libreport-plugin-mailx 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 libreport-plugin-mailx using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libreport-plugin-mailx

Install libreport-plugin-mailx 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 libreport-plugin-mailx using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libreport-plugin-mailx

How To Uninstall libreport-plugin-mailx on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the libreport-plugin-mailx package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libreport-plugin-mailx

libreport-plugin-mailx Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/libreport/events.d/mailx_event.conf
/etc/libreport/plugins/mailx.conf
/etc/libreport/workflows.d/report_mailx.conf
/usr/bin/reporter-mailx
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/4b2aa65ca99031135147c31de1596b04129015
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.problems.configuration.mailx.xml
/usr/share/libreport/conf.d/plugins/mailx.conf
/usr/share/libreport/events/report_Mailx.xml
/usr/share/libreport/workflows/workflow_Mailx.xml
/usr/share/libreport/workflows/workflow_MailxCCpp.xml
/usr/share/man/man1/reporter-mailx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mailx.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mailx_event.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/report_mailx.conf.5.gz
/etc/libreport/events.d/mailx_event.conf
/etc/libreport/plugins/mailx.conf
/etc/libreport/workflows.d/report_mailx.conf
/usr/bin/reporter-mailx
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/bd8a1eca930b813d335dc2f2480dbd02d6de23
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.problems.configuration.mailx.xml
/usr/share/libreport/conf.d/plugins/mailx.conf
/usr/share/libreport/events/report_Mailx.xml
/usr/share/libreport/workflows/workflow_Mailx.xml
/usr/share/libreport/workflows/workflow_MailxCCpp.xml
/usr/share/man/man1/reporter-mailx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mailx.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mailx_event.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/report_mailx.conf.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libreport-plugin-mailx on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.