Ubuntu – How to install mutt 1.7.0 on Xenial or Trusty

14.0416.04muttsoftware installationupgrade

My favorite command line email client has a big new version. Mutt version 1.7.0 has been released on August 18th 2016 and among other changes and improvements the developers have merged the very useful 'sidebar' patch. I am very keen to come to grips with this!

How do I install this newest version of mutt on Xenial Xerus and Trusty Tahr?

Best Answer

As one may expect, Jonathon Fernyhough has a PPA for version 1.7.0 of mutt for Ubuntu 16.04 (and 14.04 too) at https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/backports:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mutt
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