How To Install inews on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install inews on CentOS 7.
What is inews
The inews program is used by some news programs (for example, inn and trn) to post Usenet news articles to local news servers. Inews reads an article from a file or standard input, adds headers, performs some consistency checks and then sends the article to the local news server specified in the inn.conf file. Install inews if you need a program for posting Usenet articles to local news servers.
We can use yum or dnf to install inews on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install inews.
Install inews on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install inews using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install inews
Install inews on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install inews using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install inews
How To Uninstall inews on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the inews package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove inews
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install inews on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.