Information about the package, alpine, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The alpine package is designed for, powerful, easy to use console email client.
Package Name:
alpine
Summary:
powerful, easy to use console email client
Description:
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.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.21
Release:
1.el6
Size:
3.1 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the alpine package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install alpine
This command will install alpine on the server.
yum remove alpine
This command will un-install alpine on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove alpine, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove alpine
This command will un-install alpine on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove alpine when using the -y flag.
yum update alpine
This command will update alpine to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove alpine, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update alpine
This command will update alpine to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove alpine when using the -y flag.
yum info alpine
This command will show you core information about the alpine package.
yum deplist alpine
This command will show you the dependencies for alpine. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update alpine
This command will check if there is an update waiting on alpine. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.