How To Install suck on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install suck on Debian 12.
What is suck
suck is:
This package contains software for copying news from an NNTP server to your local machine, and copying replies back up to an NNTP server.
The suck/rpost combination allows you to run your own INN/CNEWS site, controlling where you get your news, and where you post outgoing articles. Suck/rpost use only standard NNTP commands that are used by your favorite news reader (like tin, knews, trn) such as POST and ARTICLE. If you can use tin or knews against an NNTP site, than you can use Suck/Rpost and have multiple site feeds.
NOTE: Suck will not work with obsolete NNTP servers that can’t handle the xhdr command.
There are three methods to install suck on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install suck Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install suck using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install suck
Install suck Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install suck using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install suck
Install suck 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 suck using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install suck
How To Uninstall suck on Debian 12
To uninstall only the suck package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove suck
Uninstall suck And Its Dependencies
To uninstall suck and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove suck
Remove suck Configurations and Data
To remove suck configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge suck
Remove suck configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove suck configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge suck
Dependencies
suck have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install suck package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.