--- title: Install Simson Desk on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft description: Get the latest version of Simson Desk for on Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Email, calendar and tasks for Microsoft 365 and IMAP url: https://snapcraft.io/install/simson-desk/rhel --- [Canonical Snapcraft](https://snapcraft.io/) # Install Simson Desk on **Red Hat Enterprise Linux** # Simson Desk [Davendra Singh (simsontech)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/simsontech "View all snaps from Davendra Singh (simsontech)") * [Davendra Singh (simsontech)](https://snapcraft.io/publisher/simsontech "View all snaps from Davendra Singh (simsontech)") [Install](https://snapcraft.io/install/simson-desk/rhel#install) #### Email, calendar and tasks for Microsoft 365 and IMAP Simson Desk is a desktop email, calendar and task client. It works with Microsoft 365, signing in with your Microsoft account, and with any mailbox that speaks IMAP and SMTP — Google Workspace, Zoho, Titan and most business hosts. It keeps a local copy of your mail so it stays fast and readable offline. * Mail with conversation threading, rules, folders and multi-select * Calendar and Microsoft To Do tasks * Address book built from your contacts, your organisation's directory and the people you actually write to * Remote images blocked until you allow them; links open in your browser * Save attachments, and save a message as .eml, .html or .pdf * Colour themes that can change by day or between working and off days * The local copy encrypted at rest, with the key held in your system keyring * Locks itself when left idle, and needs a fresh sign-in to reopen One step after installing, until the store grants it automatically: ``` sudo snap connect simson-desk:password-manager-service ``` That is what lets Simson Desk keep your sign-in in the system keyring. Without it there is nowhere to put your tokens and the app asks you to sign in on every launch. Everything else connects on install. Privacy policy: Simson Desk is an independent client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. ### Package name * simson-desk --- ### License * Proprietary --- ### Last updated * 23 August 2026 - latest/stable --- ### Websites * [simsondesk.com](https://simsondesk.com "https://simsondesk.com") --- ### Contact * [ds@simsononline.com](mailto:ds@simsononline.com "mailto:ds@simsononline.com") --- ### Report a bug * [simsondesk.com](https://simsondesk.com/support "https://simsondesk.com/support") --- ##### Report a Snap Store violation * [Report this Snap](https://snapcraft.io/install/simson-desk/rhel#report-snap-modal) --- ## Enable snaps on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and install Simson Desk Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the [Snap Store](https://snapcraft.io/store), an app store with an audience of millions. ### Enable snapd Snap is available for [Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8](https://www.redhat.com/en/enterprise-linux-8) and RHEL 7, from the 7.6 release onward. The packages for RHEL 7, RHEL 8, and RHEL 9 are in each distribution’s respective [Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) (EPEL) repository. The instructions for adding this repository diverge slightly between RHEL 7, RHEL 8 and RHEL 9, which is why they’re listed separately below. The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 9** with the following command: ``` sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm sudo dnf upgrade ``` The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 8** with the following command: ``` sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm sudo dnf upgrade ``` The EPEL repository can be added to **RHEL 7** with the following command: ``` sudo rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm ``` Adding the *optional* and *extras* repositories is also recommended: ``` sudo subscription-manager repos --enable "rhel-*-optional-rpms" --enable "rhel-*-extras-rpms" sudo yum update ``` Snap can now be installed as follows: ``` sudo yum install snapd ``` Once installed, the *systemd* unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled: ``` sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket ``` To enable *classic* snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between `/var/lib/snapd/snap` and `/snap`: ``` sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap ``` Either log out and back in again or restart your system to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly. ### Install Simson Desk To install Simson Desk, simply use the following command: ``` sudo snap install simson-desk ``` ### Other popular snaps… [See more...](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) [See more in Featured](https://snapcraft.io/search?categories=featured) ### More things to do… #### [Get the snap store](https://snapcraft.io/snap-store) Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap. #### [Learn more about snaps](https://snapcraft.io/docs) Interested to find out more about snaps? 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