How To Install inn on Fedora 36
In this tutorial we learn how to install inn in Fedora 36. inn is The InterNetNews system, an Usenet news server
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install inn on Fedora 36.
What is inn
INN (InterNetNews) is a complete system for serving Usenet news and/or private newsfeeds. INN includes innd, an NNTP (NetNews Transfer Protocol) server, and nnrpd, a news server that handles connections from news readers. Install the inn package if you need a complete system for posting, injecting, relaying and serving Usenet news. You may also need to install inn-devel, if you are going to use a separate program which interfaces to INN, like newsgate or tin.
We can use yum or dnf to install inn on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install inn.
Install inn on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install inn using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install inn
Install inn on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install inn using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install inn
How To Uninstall inn on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the inn package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove inn
inn Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/news
/etc/news/.profile
/etc/news/actsync.cfg
/etc/news/actsync.ign
/etc/news/buffindexed.conf
/etc/news/control.ctl
/etc/news/control.ctl.local
/etc/news/cycbuff.conf
/etc/news/distrib.pats
/etc/news/distributions
/etc/news/expire.ctl
/etc/news/incoming.conf
/etc/news/inn-radius.conf
/etc/news/innfeed.conf
/etc/news/innreport.conf
/etc/news/innshellvars.local
/etc/news/innshellvars.pl.local
/etc/news/innshellvars.tcl.local
/etc/news/innwatch.ctl
/etc/news/localgroups
/etc/news/moderators
/etc/news/motd.innd.sample
/etc/news/motd.nnrpd.sample
/etc/news/news2mail.cf
/etc/news/newsfeeds
/etc/news/nnrpd.track
/etc/news/nntpsend.ctl
/etc/news/nocem.ctl
/etc/news/ovdb.conf
/etc/news/readers.conf
/etc/news/send-uucp.cf
/etc/news/storage.conf
/etc/news/subscriptions
/etc/rsyslog.d
/etc/rsyslog.d/inn.conf
/run/news
/usr/bin/rnews
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/usr/share/man/man8/send-uucp.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sendinpaths.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tally.control.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tdx-util.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tinyleaf.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/writelog.8.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/INN
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/INN/Config.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/INN/Utils/Shlock.pm
/var/lib/news
/var/lib/news/active
/var/lib/news/active.times
/var/lib/news/distributions
/var/lib/news/history
/var/lib/news/http
/var/lib/news/http/innreport.css
/var/lib/news/newsgroups
/var/lib/news/subscriptions
/var/lib/news/tmp
/var/log/news/OLD
/var/run/news
/var/spool/news
/var/spool/news/archive
/var/spool/news/articles
/var/spool/news/incoming
/var/spool/news/incoming/bad
/var/spool/news/innfeed
/var/spool/news/outgoing
/var/spool/news/overview
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install inn on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).