How To Install inn on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install inn on CentOS 7.
What is inn
INN (InterNetNews) is a complete system for serving Usenet news and/or private newsfeeds. INN includes innd, an NNTP (NetNews Transport Protocol) server, and nnrpd, a newsreader that is spawned for each client. Both innd and nnrpd vary slightly from the NNTP protocol, but not in ways that are easily noticed. Install the inn package if you need a complete system for serving and reading Usenet news. You may also need to install inn-devel, if you are going to use a separate program which interfaces to INN, like newsgate or tin.
We can use yum or dnf to install inn on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install inn.
Install inn on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install inn using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install inn
Install inn 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 inn using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install inn
How To Uninstall inn on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the inn package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove inn
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install inn on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.