How To Install newscache on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install newscache on Fedora 36.
What is newscache
NewsCache is a free cache server for USENET News. NewsCache acts to news reading clients like a news server, except that it stores only those articles that have been requested by at least one client. NewsCache targets problems of the current News System like network bandwidth consumption or the IO load caused by news clients.
We can use yum or dnf to install newscache on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install newscache.
Install newscache 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 newscache using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install newscache
Install newscache 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 newscache using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install newscache
How To Uninstall newscache on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the newscache package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove newscache
newscache Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/cron.daily/newscache
/etc/newscache.conf
/etc/pam.d/newscache
/usr/bin/updatenews
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/261859d2d49bb54f2af3a6c1c509533e2e5bbe
/usr/lib/.build-id/80
/usr/lib/.build-id/80/39606a95da75a46103eb5a10ce615e489fcc30
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/08d65c6981a8eccc755926d949032c35c45917
/usr/lib/systemd/system/newscache.service
/usr/sbin/newscache
/usr/sbin/newscacheclean
/usr/share/doc/newscache
/usr/share/doc/newscache/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/newscache/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/newscache/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/newscache/README
/usr/share/doc/newscache/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/newscache/TODO
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache-coredump.txt
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache-corrupt-db-files.txt
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache-debugging.txt
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache-pam.txt
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache-stunnel-ssl.txt
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache.auth-dist
/usr/share/doc/newscache/newscache.conf-dist
/usr/share/man/man5/newscache.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/newscache.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/newscacheclean.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/updatenews.8.gz
/var/cache/newscache
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install newscache on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
