How To Install snownews on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install snownews in Fedora 36. snownews is A text mode RSS/RDF newsreader

Introduction

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

What is `snownews`

Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports all versions of RSS natively and supports other formats via plugins. The program depends on ncurses for the user interface and uses libxml2 for XML parsing. ncurses must be at least version 5.0. It should work with any version of libxml2.

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

Install snownews 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 snownews using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install snownews

Install snownews 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 snownews using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install snownews

How To Uninstall snownews on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove snownews

snownews Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/snownews
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/02eda31eb8691e21bb96475d63875b5c6b7143
/usr/share/doc/snownews
/usr/share/doc/snownews/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/doc/snownews/README.md
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/se/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/snownews.mo
/usr/share/man/de/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/snownews.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/snownews.1.gz

References

snownews website

Summary

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