How To Install libesmtp-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libesmtp-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is libesmtp-devel.x86_64

LibESMTP is a library to manage posting (or submission of) electronic mail using SMTP to a preconfigured Mail Transport Agent (MTA) such as Exim. The libesmtp-devel package contains headers and development libraries necessary for building programs against libesmtp.

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

Install libesmtp-devel.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 libesmtp-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libesmtp-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall libesmtp-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the libesmtp-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove libesmtp-devel.x86_64

libesmtp-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/libesmtp-config
/usr/include/auth-client.h
/usr/include/auth-plugin.h
/usr/include/libesmtp.h
/usr/lib64/libesmtp.so
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libesmtp.pc
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel-1.0.6
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel-1.0.6/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel-1.0.6/examples
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel-1.0.6/examples/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel-1.0.6/examples/mail-file.c
/usr/share/doc/libesmtp-devel-1.0.6/examples/test-mail

References

• libesmtp-devel.x86_64 website

Summary

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