How To Install newsx on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install newsx in Fedora 36. newsx is NNTP news exchange utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install newsx on Fedora 36.

What is `newsx`

Newsx is an NNTP client that will connect to a remote NNTP server and post outgoing news articles batched by the news system (e.g. INN), as well as fetch incoming articles.

We can use yum or dnf to install newsx on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install newsx.

Install newsx 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 newsx using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install newsx

Install newsx 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 newsx using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install newsx

How To Uninstall newsx on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove newsx

newsx Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/newsx
/usr/bin/newsx-newsq
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/88
/usr/lib/.build-id/88/14628e924e7ffae40bdff7f31fcf8c4a5505ce
/usr/share/doc/newsx
/usr/share/doc/newsx/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/newsx/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/newsx/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/newsx/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/newsx/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/newsx/README
/usr/share/doc/newsx/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/newsx-newsq.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/in.hosts.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/newsx.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/newsx.8.gz
/var/spool/news/inhosts

References

newsx website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install newsx on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).