How to install Geary Email Client for Linux Mint 18.3

To install Geary Email Client for Linuxmint 18.3

Geary Email Client is lightweight and open source email reader and it works well with most popular webmail services, including Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook, as well as providing IMAP and SMTP support. it organizes emails into ' conversations' rather than threads. It is so simple to install Geary Email Client for Linux Mint 18.3.

Installing Geary

First, make sure you add the latest repository from https://launchpad.net/~geary-team/+archive/ubuntu/releases in the following manner.

linuxhelp ~ # add-apt-repository ppa:geary-team/releases You are about to add the following PPA:
 Official Geary release packages for supported Ubuntu distributions.
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~geary-team/+archive/ubuntu/releases
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel

Executing: /tmp/tmp.slB8ma4apK/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
7A51D6F2
gpg: requesting key 7A51D6F2 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 7A51D6F2: public key " Launchpad PPA for Geary"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

Once it is done, you shall update the repo by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                         
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                      
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                                                 
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/geary-team/releases/ubuntu xenial InRelease \[18.0 kB\]      
Get:5 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release \[24.2 kB\]                                   
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease \[102 kB\]                  
Get:7 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release.gpg \[819 B\]                            
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease \[102 kB\]                       
Get:9 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia/main amd64 Packages \[18.4 kB\]           
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Get:25 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe Translation-en \[119 kB\]                                                      
Get:26 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages \[547 kB\]                                                         
Get:27 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en \[239 kB\]                                                        
Fetched 5,275 kB in 13s (404 kB/s)                                                                                                             
Reading package lists... Done

Now, you shall install Geary by running the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install geary Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  geary
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 260 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,582 kB of archives.
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Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22+linuxmint1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.48.2-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up geary (0.12.1-1~xenial2) ...

Geary E-Mail Client is now installed. Use the following command to start using Geary

linuxhelp ~ # geary

Now that Geary has been installed, go to your Linux Mint search field and find and launch Geary.

When application icon appears, click on the icon that appears.

The application now appears on your screen.

With this, the installation of Geary comes to an end.