How To Install mutt on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutt on Rocky Linux 8.
What is mutt
Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based MIME mail client. Mutt is highly configurable, and is well suited to the mail power user with advanced features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading, regular expression searches and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting groups of messages.
We can use yum or dnf to install mutt on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mutt.
Install mutt 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 mutt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mutt
Install mutt 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 mutt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mutt
How To Uninstall mutt on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the mutt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mutt
mutt Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/Muttrc
/etc/Muttrc.local
/usr/bin/mutt
/usr/bin/pgpewrap
/usr/bin/pgpring
/usr/bin/smime_keys
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/f8a9c2376df76f3c6be02f72a94971e2320293
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/541cfd8d1657d19cedbff95794d84626a4a3cf
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/7ba5fda714578622637b41bcaa5f68e04a2977
/usr/share/doc/mutt
/usr/share/doc/mutt/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mutt/Mush.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mutt/Pine.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/README
/usr/share/doc/mutt/README.SECURITY
/usr/share/doc/mutt/README.SSL
/usr/share/doc/mutt/Tin.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/UPDATING
/usr/share/doc/mutt/colors.default
/usr/share/doc/mutt/colors.linux
/usr/share/doc/mutt/gpg.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt
/usr/share/doc/mutt/mutt_ldap_query
/usr/share/doc/mutt/pgp2.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/pgp5.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/pgp6.rc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.mailcap
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.muttrc
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.muttrc-compress
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.muttrc-sidebar
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.muttrc-tlr
/usr/share/doc/mutt/sample.vimrc-sidebar
/usr/share/doc/mutt/smime-notes.txt
/usr/share/doc/mutt/smime.rc
/usr/share/licenses/mutt
/usr/share/licenses/mutt/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/mutt/GPL
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/mutt.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/mutt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pgpewrap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pgpring.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/smime_keys.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/muttrc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/muttrc.local.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutt on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.