How To Install cleanfeed on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cleanfeed on Fedora 34.
What is cleanfeed
Cleanfeed is an automatic spam filter for Usenet news servers and routers (INN, Cyclone, Typhoon, Breeze and NNTPRelay). Cleanfeed looks for duplicated messages, repeated patterns, and known spamming sites and domains. It can be configured to block binary posts to non-binary newsgroups, to cancel already-rejected articles, and to reject some spamming from local users. Install the cleanfeed package if you need a spam filter for a Usenet news server.
We can use yum or dnf to install cleanfeed on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cleanfeed.
Install cleanfeed on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cleanfeed using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cleanfeed
Install cleanfeed on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cleanfeed using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cleanfeed
How To Uninstall cleanfeed on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cleanfeed package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cleanfeed
cleanfeed Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/news/bad_adult_paths
/etc/news/bad_cancel_paths
/etc/news/bad_hosts
/etc/news/bad_paths
/etc/news/cleanfeed.local
/usr/share/doc/cleanfeed
/usr/share/doc/cleanfeed/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/cleanfeed/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/cleanfeed/README
/usr/share/doc/cleanfeed/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/cleanfeed
/usr/share/licenses/cleanfeed/LICENSE
/usr/share/news/bin/filter
/usr/share/news/bin/filter/filter_innd.pl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cleanfeed on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.