How To Install slrnpull on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slrnpull on Debian 9.
What is slrnpull
slrnpull is:
Slrnpull pulls a small newsfeed, from an NNTP server, to a local news spool directory. The news spool can be used by news readers (such as slrn), which can read a local news spool without an NNTP server.
In combination with the slrn news reader, slrnpull can provide true offline news reading. You can tell slrnpull to download headers only, mark interesting ones for download with slrn and fetch those article bodies during the next run of slrnpull.
Slrnpull also has the ability to killfile articles so that they will not be downloaded from the server.
There are three methods to install slrnpull 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 slrnpull Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install slrnpull using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install slrnpull
Install slrnpull Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install slrnpull using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install slrnpull
Install slrnpull 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 slrnpull using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install slrnpull
How To Uninstall slrnpull on Debian 9
To uninstall only the slrnpull package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove slrnpull
Uninstall slrnpull And Its Dependencies
To uninstall slrnpull and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove slrnpull
Remove slrnpull Configurations and Data
To remove slrnpull configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge slrnpull
Remove slrnpull configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove slrnpull configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge slrnpull
Dependencies
slrnpull have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slrnpull package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.