How To Install snownews on Fedora 34

snownews is A text mode RSS/RDF newsreader

Introduction

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

What is `snownews`

Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports all versions of RSS natively and supports other formats via plugins. The program depends on ncurses for the user interface and uses libxml2 for XML parsing. ncurses must be at least version 5.0. It should work with any version of libxml2.

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

Install snownews 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 snownews using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install snownews

Install snownews 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 snownews using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install snownews

How To Uninstall snownews on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove snownews

snownews Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/opml2snow
/usr/bin/snow2opml
/usr/bin/snownews
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/b41d29df36799fab319b3558a05dbb4354e262
/usr/share/doc/snownews
/usr/share/doc/snownews/AUTHOR
/usr/share/doc/snownews/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/snownews/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/snownews/Changes
/usr/share/doc/snownews/README.md
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/se/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/man/de/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/opml2snow.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru.KOI8-R/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/bin/snownews
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/1d7ab7df7a56e3f4c321d35198aa4c89497609
/usr/share/doc/snownews
/usr/share/doc/snownews/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/doc/snownews/README.md
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/se/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/man/de/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/snownews.1.gz

References

snownews website

Summary

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