How To Install postmulti-script on CentOS 8

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 postfix

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install postfix

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

What is postmulti-script and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 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 postmulti-script on CentOS 8. 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 postmulti-script on CentOS 8 using dnf

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

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install postmulti-script using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install postfix

Install postmulti-script on CentOS 8 using yum

Because postmulti-script is available in CentOS 8’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 postmulti-script package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install postfix

How to upgrade (update) a single package postmulti-script using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update postfix

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade postfix

How to Upgrade postmulti-script on CentOS 8 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 postfix

How To remove postmulti-script from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the postmulti-script package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove postfix

Extra info and code examples

Postfix is Wietse Venema's mail transport agent that started life as an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install postmulti-script using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the postmulti-script from CentOS 8.

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