Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install altermime on CentOS 8.
What is altermime
alterMIME is a small program which is used to alter MIME-encoded mailpacks. alterMIME can * Insert disclaimers * Insert arbitary X-headers * Modify existing headers * Remove attachments based on filename or content-type * Replace attachments based on filename
We can use yum or dnf to install altermime on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install altermime.
Install altermime 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 altermime using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install altermime
Install altermime 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 altermime using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install altermime
How To Uninstall altermime on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the altermime package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove altermime
altermime Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/altermime
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/86707426aac6735f7b32d292a14dc51208f8a7
/usr/share/doc/altermime
/usr/share/doc/altermime/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/altermime/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/altermime/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install altermime on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
