Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine on CentOS 8.
What is alpine
Alpine – an Alternatively Licensed Program for Internet News & Email – is a tool for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. Alpine is the successor to Pine and was developed by Computing & Communications at the University of Washington. Though originally designed for inexperienced email users, Alpine supports many advanced features, and an ever-growing number of configuration and personal-preference options. Changes and enhancements over pine * Released under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0. * Internationalization built around new internal Unicode support. * Ground-up reorganization of source code around new “pith/†core routine library. * Ground-up reorganization of build and install procedure based on GNU Build System’s autotools.
We can use yum or dnf to install alpine on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alpine.
Install alpine on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install alpine using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install alpine
Install alpine on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install alpine using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install alpine
How To Uninstall alpine on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the alpine package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove alpine
alpine Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/pine.conf
/etc/pine.conf.fixed
/usr/bin/alpine
/usr/bin/pico
/usr/bin/pilot
/usr/bin/rpdump
/usr/bin/rpload
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/7a4982dd046b85ae91e2f21f5c0a201d2e2bd3
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/9c8e07cb3bf4ebbdd1a172bac848990a3aa9a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/8f31f9cacda16cacbe626a7bf7094da5150734
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/fecf401f6b6d8e59dc418341fa248a9b878efb
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/bc242dcc4e2392fc09055b8366eb8a7fc2f04e
/usr/share/doc/alpine
/usr/share/doc/alpine/README
/usr/share/doc/alpine/README.fedora
/usr/share/licenses/alpine
/usr/share/licenses/alpine/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/alpine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pico.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pilot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpdump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpload.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
