How To Install newsx on Fedora 34

newsx is NNTP news exchange utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install newsx on Fedora 34.

What is newsx

Newsx is an NNTP client that will connect to a remote NNTP server and post outgoing news articles batched by the news system (e.g. INN), as well as fetch incoming articles.

We can use yum or dnf to install newsx on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install newsx.

Install newsx 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 newsx using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install newsx

Install newsx 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 newsx using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install newsx

How To Uninstall newsx on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the newsx package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove newsx

newsx Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/newsx
/usr/bin/newsx-newsq
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/6e66f0aae6eb8d24cf1e054e750f07130cbb53
/usr/share/doc/newsx
/usr/share/doc/newsx/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/newsx/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/newsx/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/newsx/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/newsx/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/newsx/README
/usr/share/doc/newsx/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/newsx-newsq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/in.hosts.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/newsx.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/newsx.8.gz
/var/spool/news/inhosts

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install newsx on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.