How To Install squirrelmail on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install squirrelmail on CentOS 7.
What is squirrelmail
SquirrelMail is a basic webmail package written in PHP4. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in pure HTML 4.0 (with no JavaScript) for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements and is very easy to configure and install.
We can use yum or dnf to install squirrelmail on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install squirrelmail.
Install squirrelmail on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install squirrelmail using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install squirrelmail
Install squirrelmail 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 squirrelmail using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install squirrelmail
How To Uninstall squirrelmail on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the squirrelmail package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove squirrelmail
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install squirrelmail on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
