How To Install tin on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tin on Fedora 34.
What is tin
Tin is a basic, easy to use Internet news reader. Tin can read news locally or remotely via an NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) server. Install tin if you need a basic news reader.
We can use yum or dnf to install tin on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tin.
Install tin 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 tin using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tin
Install tin 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 tin using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tin
How To Uninstall tin on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the tin package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tin
tin Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/metamutt
/usr/bin/opt-case.pl
/usr/bin/rtin
/usr/bin/tin
/usr/bin/tinews.pl
/usr/bin/w2r.pl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/74cdc166a2e26c70f7b7cd27088042ca1972e0
/usr/share/doc/tin
/usr/share/doc/tin/ABOUT-NLS
/usr/share/doc/tin/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/tin/CHANGES.old
/usr/share/doc/tin/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/tin/DEBUG_REFS
/usr/share/doc/tin/README
/usr/share/doc/tin/TODO
/usr/share/doc/tin/WHATSNEW
/usr/share/doc/tin/art_handling.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/article.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/auth.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/config-anomalies
/usr/share/doc/tin/filtering
/usr/share/doc/tin/good-netkeeping-seal
/usr/share/doc/tin/internals.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/iso2asc.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/keymap.sample
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/de
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/de.add
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/de.po
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/de/tin.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/de/tin.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/en_GB
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/en_GB.po
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/en_GB/tin.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/en_GB/tin.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/es
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/es.po
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/es/tin.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/es/tin.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/tin-man.pot
/usr/share/doc/tin/mailcap.sample
/usr/share/doc/tin/mbox.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/mime.types
/usr/share/doc/tin/mmdf.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/newsoverview.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/nov_tests
/usr/share/doc/tin/opt-case.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/pgp.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/plp_snprintf.3
/usr/share/doc/tin/rcvars.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/reading-mail.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/tin.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/tin.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/tin.defaults
/usr/share/doc/tin/tinews.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/tools.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/umlaute.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/umlauts.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/url_handler.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/w2r.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/wildmat.3
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/opt-case.pl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rtin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tinews.pl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/url_handler.pl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/w2r.pl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mbox.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mmdf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/rtin.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/tin.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tin on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.