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Install Sympa distribution: RPM package

Currently, several DNF (YUM) repositories provide RPM packages of Sympa.

• Pre-release packages for Fedora/RHEL/CentOS are provided by COPR sympa-beta repository.

Note

• Packages for RHEL/CentOS 6 or earlier will no longer be provided.

Requirements

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or several clones of it (CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and so on):

  Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository has to be added. It can be done by installing epel-release package. For more details see EPEL description.

  Note that you may need enabling additional CRB repository: Some dependent packages are shipped in it.

• Fedora:

  Packages for Sympa are provided.

• Mageia:

  Stable package for Sympa is provided.

Installing

1. Install Sympa:

   # dnf install sympa

   or (if you are using yum)

   # yum install sympa

Thus, Sympa and dependent packages will be installed.

Upgrading

1. Update DNF (yum), dependent packages and then Sympa packages:

   # dnf update dnf
   # dnf update --exclude='sympa*'
   # dnf update sympa

   or (if you are using yum)

   # yum update yum
   # yum update --exclude='sympa*'
   # yum update sympa

Installing earlier version

If you have to (re)install RPMs of Sympa prior to 6.2.44, check the archive.

Note

• Unless you needed particular historic version of Sympa, follow the instruction described in above.