How To Install mailcap on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailcap
on CentOS 7.
What is mailcap
The mailcap file is used by the metamail program. Metamail reads the mailcap file to determine how it should display non-text or multimedia material. Basically, mailcap associates a particular type of file with a particular program that a mail agent or other program can call in order to handle the file. Mailcap should be installed to allow certain programs to be able to handle non-text files. Also included in this package is the mime.types file which contains a list of MIME types and their filename “extension” associations, used by several applications e.g. to determine MIME types for filenames.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install mailcap
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mailcap.
Install mailcap on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install mailcap
using yum
by running the following command:
Install mailcap 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 mailcap
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mailcap on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mailcap
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mailcap
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.