How to Install and Uninstall knews Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "knews" package

This tutorial shows how to install knews on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall knews on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                knews
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the knews package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: knews
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0b.1-32
Priority: optional
Section: universe/news
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Colin Watson
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 686
Provides: news-reader
Depends: debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, sensible-utils, sharutils, libc6 (>= 2.28), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libx11-6, libxmu6, libxpm4, libxt6
Filename: pool/universe/k/knews/knews_1.0b.1-32_amd64.deb
Size: 248380
MD5sum: 1e99129ebe71cb493c730ed38c40ee7a
SHA1: 0c77b56559795cdd9e5f4b7e976d32c25e633208
SHA256: c25219eaf85ce13b19ea227c5167a6b06bb05649c2cd80964cf5af4b5b31c30d
SHA512: cb61369a22edb69442ef40a838774c5c3da19e2c8721d47c246c355dc9912fb6b0f8022813251cb00f7aa3a1e3440bee583bf2e093fb21e83394789d7034c7a9
Description-en: Graphical threaded news reader
Knews is an X11 based thread-oriented news reader. It is capable of
representing threads as a graphical tree, represents quotations with
different colors and much more.
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Also included here is knewsd, a tiny NNTP daemon which can read news
from a spool directory or even from a mail folder hierarchy, for use
when you don't have a real server available. There is no guarantee
that it will work with any client other than knews, so it is not
packaged separately.
Description-md5: 9e0b51cf467618edbe2b5a75f614034c