How To Install statnews on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install statnews on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is statnews
statnews is:
This program may be useful to analyze newsgroups or mailing lists with respect to authors, messages length and frequency, and so on.
At this moment, it operates on local spools only (it has neither NNTP nor HTTP capabilities); the spool has to store one message per file in traditional mbox format.
There are three methods to install statnews on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install statnews Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install statnews using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install statnews
Install statnews Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install statnews using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install statnews
Install statnews Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install statnews using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install statnews
How To Uninstall statnews on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the statnews package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove statnews
Uninstall statnews And Its Dependencies
To uninstall statnews and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove statnews
Remove statnews Configurations and Data
To remove statnews configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge statnews
Remove statnews configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove statnews configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge statnews
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install statnews package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
