How To Install exipick on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install exim

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install exim

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is exipick and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install exipick on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install exipick on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install exipick using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install exim

Install exipick on Fedora 34 using yum

Because exipick is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install exipick package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install exim

How to upgrade (update) a single package exipick using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like exipick in this example you should use the following command:

yum update exim

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade exim

How to Upgrade exipick on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update exim

How To remove exipick from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the exipick package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove exim

Extra info and code examples

Exim (v4) is a mail transport agent. exim4-base provides the support files needed by all exim4 daemon packages. You need an additional package containing the main executable. The available packages are: exim4-daemon-light exim4-daemon-heavy If you build exim4 from the source package locally, you can also build an exim4-daemon-custom package tailored to your own feature set. The Debian exim4 packages have their own web page, http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4. There is also a Debian-specific FAQ list. Information about the way the Debian packages are configured can be found in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz, which additionally contains information about the way the Debian binary packages are built. The very extensive upstream documentation is shipped in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz. To repeat the debconf-driven configuration process in a standard setup, invoke dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. There is a Debian-centered mailing list,

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install exipick using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the exipick from Fedora 34.

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