How to Install and Uninstall tin Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 02,2025

You can also install and uninstall the tin on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "tin" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install tin on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "tin" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall tin on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tin package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: tin
Version: 1:2.6.2-1
Installed-Size: 2889
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri
Architecture: amd64
Provides: news-reader
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libcanlock3 (>= 3.0.0), libicu72 (>= 72.1~rc-1~), libncursesw6 (>= 6), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libtinfo6 (>= 6), libuu0 (>= 0.5.20), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Recommends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Suggests: gnupg, ispell
Description: Full-screen easy to use Usenet newsreader
Description-md5: 8a58989374e91e839f8418fe3d2d240f
Homepage: http://www.tin.org/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::text-mode, network::client,
protocol::nntp, role::program, scope::application, uitoolkit::ncurses
Section: news
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tin/tin_2.6.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 781508
MD5sum: 4292fcc390233cd259bd14c1201f17c6
SHA256: 1ed9b647dbea8c39dd6ef168f1cb198ae6291a53d7b2ca0dfaa5847dfd7eb2ea