How To Install postnews on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install postnews
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is postnews
postnews is:
Postnews is a small command line utility written in Python that can be used to post Usenet articles (including headers) from stdin or a file to an NNTP server. The article must at least contain the headers ‘From:’,‘Newsgroups:’, ‘Subject:’, a newline and a body.
There are three methods to install postnews
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install postnews Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install postnews
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install postnews
Install postnews Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install postnews
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install postnews
Install postnews 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 postnews
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install postnews
How To Uninstall postnews on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the postnews
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove postnews
Uninstall postnews And Its Dependencies
To uninstall postnews
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove postnews
Remove postnews Configurations and Data
To remove postnews
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge postnews
Remove postnews configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove postnews
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge postnews
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install postnews
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.