How To Install libnews-article-perl on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnews-article-perl
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libnews-article-perl
libnews-article-perl is:
Provides News::Article, News::FormArticle, News::AutoReply, and News::FormReply, which are Perl modules for manipulating Usenet articles and mail messages. Supported capabilities include modifying headers, signing articles with either the PGPMoose or pgpverify algorithms, posting and mailing articles, and instantiating them from templates. It was primarily written for use by gateways and moderation programs.
There are three methods to install libnews-article-perl
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libnews-article-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libnews-article-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libnews-article-perl
Install libnews-article-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libnews-article-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libnews-article-perl
Install libnews-article-perl Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libnews-article-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libnews-article-perl
How To Uninstall libnews-article-perl on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libnews-article-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libnews-article-perl
Uninstall libnews-article-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libnews-article-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libnews-article-perl
Remove libnews-article-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libnews-article-perl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libnews-article-perl
Remove libnews-article-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libnews-article-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libnews-article-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libnews-article-perl
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.