How To Install slrnpull on Fedora 34

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 slrnpull

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install slrnpull

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

What is slrnpull and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 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 slrnpull on Fedora 34. 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 slrnpull on Fedora 34 using dnf

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

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install slrnpull using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install slrnpull

Install slrnpull on Fedora 34 using yum

Because slrnpull is available in Fedora 34’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 slrnpull package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install slrnpull

How to upgrade (update) a single package slrnpull using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update slrnpull

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade slrnpull

How to Upgrade slrnpull on Fedora 34 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 slrnpull

How To remove slrnpull from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the slrnpull package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove slrnpull

Extra info and code examples

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.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install slrnpull using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the slrnpull from Fedora 34.

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