How To Install slrn on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slrn on CentOS 7.
What is slrn
SLRN is a threaded Internet news reader. SLRN is highly customizable and allows users to design complex filters for sorting or killing news articles. SLRN works well over slow network lines. A helper utility for reading news offline is provided in the slrn-pull package.
We can use yum or dnf to install slrn on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slrn.
Install slrn on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install slrn using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slrn
Install slrn 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 slrn using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slrn
How To Uninstall slrn on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the slrn package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slrn
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slrn on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
