How To Install inn2-inews on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install inn2-inews on Kali Linux.

What is inn2-inews

inn2-inews is:

‘inews’ is the program that newsreaders call when the user wishes to post an article; it does a few elementary checks and passes the article on to the news server for posting.

This version is the one from Rich Salz’s InterNetNews news transport system (which is also available as a Debian package).

There are three methods to install inn2-inews on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install inn2-inews Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install inn2-inews using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install inn2-inews

Install inn2-inews Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install inn2-inews using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install inn2-inews

Install inn2-inews Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install inn2-inews using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install inn2-inews

How To Uninstall inn2-inews on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the inn2-inews package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove inn2-inews

Uninstall inn2-inews And Its Dependencies

To uninstall inn2-inews and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove inn2-inews

Remove inn2-inews Configurations and Data

To remove inn2-inews configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge inn2-inews

Remove inn2-inews configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove inn2-inews configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inn2-inews

Dependencies

inn2-inews have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• inn2-inews website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install inn2-inews package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.