How To Install slrn on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slrn on Fedora 34.
What is slrn
SLRN is a threaded Internet news reader. SLRN is highly customizable and allows users to design complex filters for sorting or killing news articles. SLRN works well over slow network lines. A helper utility for reading news offline is provided in the slrn-pull package.
We can use yum or dnf to install slrn on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slrn.
Install slrn 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 slrn using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slrn
Install slrn 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 slrn using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slrn
How To Uninstall slrn on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the slrn package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slrn
slrn Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/slrn.rc
/usr/bin/slrn
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/7f9c1f36b7cea97ec4f7885cd47d899474a708
/usr/share/doc/slrn
/usr/share/doc/slrn/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/slrn/FIRST_STEPS
/usr/share/doc/slrn/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/slrn/README
/usr/share/doc/slrn/README.GroupLens
/usr/share/doc/slrn/README.SSL
/usr/share/doc/slrn/README.macros
/usr/share/doc/slrn/README.multiuser
/usr/share/doc/slrn/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/slrn/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/NEWS.cleanscore
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/README.cleanscore
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/README.slrnrc-conv
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/cleanscore
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/cleanscore.FSFaddress
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/slrnrc-conv
/usr/share/doc/slrn/help.txt
/usr/share/doc/slrn/manual.txt
/usr/share/doc/slrn/pc-keys.txt
/usr/share/doc/slrn/score.sl
/usr/share/doc/slrn/score.txt
/usr/share/doc/slrn/slrn-doc.html
/usr/share/doc/slrn/slrnfuns.txt
/usr/share/licenses/slrn
/usr/share/licenses/slrn/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/slrn/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/slrn.1.gz
/usr/share/slrn
/usr/share/slrn/slang
/usr/share/slrn/slang/color.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/gsort.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/ispell.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/latin2.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/mailcap.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/mime.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/multipart.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/nn.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/posthook.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/search.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/tin-art.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/tin-group.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/ttyprint.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/util.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/varset.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/xcomment.sl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slrn on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.