Install Sympa distribution: RPM package

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

• Stable packages of Sympa for RHEL/CentOS are provided by EPEL, and packages for Fedora are also provided.

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

Note:

• Packages for RHEL/CentOS 8 and 9 are work in progress.

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

Requirements

• Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 or its clones. Among clones, at least CentOS 7 is reported working.

• With RHEL/CentOS, add Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. It can be done by installing epel-release package. For more details see EPEL description.

  Note that some distributions need enabling additional repository/ies: Some dependent packages are shipped in those repositories.

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, they are provided by repository on Sympa-JA.org.

Note:

• Sympa-JA.org repository will no longer be updated. And it may be shut down in the near future. Unless you needed particular historic version of Sympa, follow the instruction described in above.

• If you have been using Sympa-JA.org repository, you may seamlessly upgrade sympa package with EPEL.

1. Install EPEL repository (see “Requirements” above).

2. Add Sympa repository.

   Download a configuration file of either repository:

   • Repository on Sympa-JA.org

   and save it in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory.

   Then update cache:

   # yum makecache
   

3. Install Sympa:

   # yum install sympa
   

By the steps above, Sympa and dependent packages will be installed.