How to Install and Uninstall inn2-inews Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "inn2-inews" package

Please follow the guidance below to install inn2-inews on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                inn2-inews
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "inn2-inews" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall inn2-inews on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                inn2-inews
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the inn2-inews package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: inn2-inews
Priority: extra
Section: universe/news
Installed-Size: 376
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Marco d'Itri
Architecture: amd64
Source: inn2
Version: 2.6.0-2
Provides: inews
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Filename: pool/universe/i/inn2/inn2-inews_2.6.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 122796
MD5sum: cfe5869d4d9e844e9cae41d9aa2f50ae
SHA1: 402446367429e6f67e7a9df0a41215b50af983ea
SHA256: a309fa94af08938d8f05741ff50f5968c3d74b12e72f32fb9daa3b446e2eb021
Description-en: NNTP client news injector, from InterNetNews (INN)
'inews' is the program that newsreaders call when the user wishes to
post an article; it does a few elementary checks and passes the article
on to the news server for posting.
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This version is the one from Rich Salz's InterNetNews news transport
system (which is also available as a Debian package).
Description-md5: a5db9d905d5a55d55a233c52b39dad00
Homepage: https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu