How To Install slrn on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install slrn in Fedora 36. slrn is A threaded Internet news reader

Introduction

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

What is slrn

SLRN is a threaded Internet news reader. SLRN is highly customizable and allows users to design complex filters for sorting or killing news articles. SLRN works well over slow network lines. A helper utility for reading news offline is provided in the slrn-pull package.

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

Install slrn 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 slrn using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install slrn

Install slrn 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 slrn using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install slrn

How To Uninstall slrn on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove slrn

slrn Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/slrn.rc
/usr/bin/slrn
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/9666f58f76a64ba0497c90de9735d2b8539720
/usr/share/doc/slrn
/usr/share/doc/slrn/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/slrn/FIRST_STEPS
/usr/share/doc/slrn/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/slrn/README
/usr/share/doc/slrn/README.GroupLens
/usr/share/doc/slrn/README.SSL
/usr/share/doc/slrn/README.macros
/usr/share/doc/slrn/README.multiuser
/usr/share/doc/slrn/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/slrn/changes.txt
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/NEWS.cleanscore
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/README.cleanscore
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/README.slrnrc-conv
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/cleanscore
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/cleanscore.FSFaddress
/usr/share/doc/slrn/contrib/slrnrc-conv
/usr/share/doc/slrn/help.txt
/usr/share/doc/slrn/manual.txt
/usr/share/doc/slrn/pc-keys.txt
/usr/share/doc/slrn/score.sl
/usr/share/doc/slrn/score.txt
/usr/share/doc/slrn/slrn-doc.html
/usr/share/doc/slrn/slrnfuns.txt
/usr/share/licenses/slrn
/usr/share/licenses/slrn/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/slrn/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/slrn.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/slrn.1.gz
/usr/share/slrn
/usr/share/slrn/slang
/usr/share/slrn/slang/color.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/gsort.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/ispell.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/latin2.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/mailcap.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/mime.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/multipart.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/nn.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/posthook.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/search.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/slrn.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/tin-art.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/tin-group.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/ttyprint.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/util.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/varset.sl
/usr/share/slrn/slang/xcomment.sl

References

Summary

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