How To Install dovecot-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-mysql.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dovecot-mysql.x86_64 is MySQL back end for dovecot

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dovecot-mysql.x86_64`

This package provides the MySQL back end for dovecot-auth etc.

We can use yum to install dovecot-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dovecot-mysql.x86_64.

Install dovecot-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dovecot-mysql.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dovecot-mysql.x86_64

How To Uninstall dovecot-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dovecot-mysql.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dovecot-mysql.x86_64

dovecot-mysql.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/dovecot/auth/libdriver_mysql.so
/usr/lib64/dovecot/dict/libdriver_mysql.so
/usr/lib64/dovecot/libdriver_mysql.so

References

dovecot-mysql.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dovecot-mysql.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.