How To Install filter_innd.py on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install inn

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install inn

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is filter_innd.py and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install filter_innd.py on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install filter_innd.py on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install filter_innd.py using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install inn

Install filter_innd.py on CentOS 8 using yum

Because filter_innd.py is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install filter_innd.py package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install inn

How to upgrade (update) a single package filter_innd.py using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like filter_innd.py in this example you should use the following command:

yum update inn

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade inn

How to Upgrade filter_innd.py on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update inn

How To remove filter_innd.py from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the filter_innd.py package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove inn

Extra info and code examples

This is INN version 1.x, provided for smaller sites which do not need the complexity of INN 2.x. Large sites should use Debian's inn2 package instead. The news transport is the part of the system that stores the articles and the lists of which groups are available and so on, and provides those articles on request to users. It receives news (either posted locally or from a newsfeed site), files it, and passes it on to any downstream sites. Each article is kept for a period of time and then deleted (this is known as `expiry'). By default Debian's INN will install in a fairly simple `local-only' configuration. In order to make use of the services provided by INN you'll have to use a user-level newsreader program such as pan. The newsreader is the program that fetches articles from the server and shows them to the user, remembering which the user has seen so that they don't get shown again. It also provides the posting interface for the user.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install filter_innd.py using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the filter_innd.py from CentOS 8.

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