How To Install newscache on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install newscache on Fedora 34.
What is newscache
NewsCache is a free cache server for USENET News. NewsCache acts to news reading clients like a news server, except that it stores only those articles that have been requested by at least one client. NewsCache targets problems of the current News System like network bandwidth consumption or the IO load caused by news clients.
We can use yum or dnf to install newscache on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install newscache.
Install newscache 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 newscache using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install newscache
Install newscache 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 newscache using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install newscache
How To Uninstall newscache on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the newscache package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove newscache
newscache Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/cron.daily/newscache
/etc/newscache.conf
/etc/pam.d/newscache
/usr/bin/updatenews
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/1e/0d903658c21ac0ee53f9598db5d28c6317f332
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/1d3e5e522ee358d3fbb809f1eac00c56b10eb7
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/74170766f257e8e13c10a2911b264ac458c027
/usr/lib/systemd/system/newscache.service
/usr/sbin/newscache
/usr/sbin/newscacheclean
/usr/share/doc/newscache
/usr/share/doc/newscache/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/newscache/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/newscache/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/newscache/README
/usr/share/doc/newscache/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/newscache/TODO
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache-coredump.txt
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache-corrupt-db-files.txt
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache-debugging.txt
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache-pam.txt
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache-stunnel-ssl.txt
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache.auth-dist
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache.conf-dist
/usr/share/man/man5/newscache.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/newscache.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/newscacheclean.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/updatenews.8.gz
/var/cache/newscache
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install newscache on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.