How To Install trn4 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install trn4 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is trn4
trn4 is:
trn is a threaded news reader with a long history, descended from Larry Wall’s rn (part of the second generation of newsreaders). It has a powerful full screen text mode user interface, where most actions are available at the press of a single key. It is highly configurable.
This version of trn reads news from a news server via NNTP (the Network News Transfer Protocol). You must have a news server available - large sites usually provide a site-wide server.
If you install a news server on your system (either containing just local newsgroups or with a partial or full USENET feed) you can configure trn to access it. In this case you will also need to install an appropriate ‘inews’ package for local posting.
This is a separate package from trn because trn 4.0 has enough substantial changes in its default behaviour (for instance, the group selector is new in 4.0) that some users prefer to stay with an older version of trn.
There are three methods to install trn4 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 trn4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install trn4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install trn4
Install trn4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install trn4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install trn4
Install trn4 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 trn4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install trn4
How To Uninstall trn4 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the trn4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove trn4
Uninstall trn4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall trn4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove trn4
Remove trn4 Configurations and Data
To remove trn4 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge trn4
Remove trn4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove trn4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge trn4
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install trn4 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
