How To Install slrnpull on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install slrnpull on Debian 9. slrnpull is pulls a small newsfeed from an NNTP server

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.