How To Install swaks on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install swaks on CentOS 7. swaks is Command-line SMTP transaction tester

Introduction

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

What is swaks

Swiss Army Knife SMTP various aspects of your SMTP server, including TLS and AUTH.

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

Install swaks on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install swaks

Install swaks 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 swaks using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install swaks

How To Uninstall swaks on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove swaks

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Summary

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