How To Install rss2email on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install rss2email on CentOS 7. rss2email is Deliver news from RSS feeds to your SMTP server as text or HTML

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rss2email on CentOS 7.

What is rss2email

rss2email lets you subscribe to a list of XML newsfeeds (RSS or Atom). It can parse them regularly with the help of cron and send new items to you by email. An HTML mail will be send in the default configuration to the local SMTP server. See the manual page r2e for details on how to set up rss2email.

We can use yum or dnf to install rss2email on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rss2email.

Install rss2email on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install rss2email using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rss2email

Install rss2email 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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install rss2email using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rss2email

How To Uninstall rss2email on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the rss2email package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rss2email

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rss2email on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.