How To Install nn on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nn on Debian 9.
What is nn
nn is:
The motto of nn is its expanded name, which is “No News is good news, but nn is better”, and the nn newsreader is designed to let you minimize the amount of time you spend reading news (or, more realistically, to allow you to follow even more newsgroups :-).
Nn allows you to quickly select articles of interest and skip the rest. It also supports efficient article killing and selection of articles by author and subject.
This version of nn reads news from a news server via NNTP (the Network News Transfer Protocol), and can make use of your NNTP server’s NOV database, if configured. You must have a news server available - large sites usually provide a site-wide server. (For those familiar with ’nn’, this is a client-only version.)
There are three methods to install nn on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nn Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nn using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nn
Install nn Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nn using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nn
Install nn 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install nn using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nn
How To Uninstall nn on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nn package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nn
Uninstall nn And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nn and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nn
Remove nn Configurations and Data
To remove nn configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nn
Remove nn configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nn configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nn
Dependencies
nn have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nn package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.