How To Install tin on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install tin in Fedora 36. tin is Basic Internet news reader

Introduction

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

What is tin

Tin is a basic, easy to use Internet news reader. Tin can read news locally or remotely via an NNTP (Network News Transport Protocol) server. Install tin if you need a basic news reader.

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

Install tin 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 tin using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tin

Install tin 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 tin using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tin

How To Uninstall tin on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove tin

tin Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/metamutt
/usr/bin/opt-case.pl
/usr/bin/rtin
/usr/bin/tin
/usr/bin/tinews.pl
/usr/bin/w2r.pl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/b81d3952ad2b00d17d300a2b92d2a99b3b486c
/usr/share/doc/tin
/usr/share/doc/tin/ABOUT-NLS
/usr/share/doc/tin/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/tin/CHANGES.old
/usr/share/doc/tin/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/tin/DEBUG_REFS
/usr/share/doc/tin/README
/usr/share/doc/tin/TODO
/usr/share/doc/tin/WHATSNEW
/usr/share/doc/tin/art_handling.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/article.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/auth.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/config-anomalies
/usr/share/doc/tin/filtering
/usr/share/doc/tin/good-netkeeping-seal
/usr/share/doc/tin/internals.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/iso2asc.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/keymap.sample
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/de
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/de.add
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/de.po
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/de/tin.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/de/tin.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/en_GB
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/en_GB.po
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/en_GB/tin.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/en_GB/tin.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/es
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/es.po
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/es/tin.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/es/tin.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/l10n/tin-man.pot
/usr/share/doc/tin/mailcap.sample
/usr/share/doc/tin/mbox.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/mime.types
/usr/share/doc/tin/mmdf.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/newsoverview.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/nov_tests
/usr/share/doc/tin/opt-case.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/pgp.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/plp_snprintf.3
/usr/share/doc/tin/rcvars.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/reading-mail.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/tin.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/tin.5
/usr/share/doc/tin/tin.defaults
/usr/share/doc/tin/tinews.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/tools.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/umlaute.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/umlauts.txt
/usr/share/doc/tin/url_handler.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/w2r.1
/usr/share/doc/tin/wildmat.3
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tin.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/opt-case.pl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rtin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tinews.pl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/url_handler.pl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/w2r.pl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mbox.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mmdf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/rtin.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/tin.5.gz

References

Summary

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