How to Install and Uninstall postnews Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "postnews" package

Please follow the steps below to install postnews on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

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


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

Package: postnews
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 19
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Robert James Clay
Architecture: all
Version: 0.6.1-1
Depends: python
Filename: pool/universe/p/postnews/postnews_0.6.1-1_all.deb
Size: 5078
MD5sum: 5832f73f96f263d0579902ba7ea124ae
SHA1: 294644a599b7b555bde51d4af8b6c9477f9cc024
SHA256: 0a1b3c643f5a7d7a19ec7b57fc8e11b68fb2f2415cdfe77919556a3bbb231818
Description-en: Post Usenet articles via NNTP from the command line
Postnews is a small command line utility written in Python that can be used
to post Usenet articles (including headers) from stdin or a file to a nntp
server. The article must at least contain the headers 'From:','Newsgroups:',
'Subject:', a newline and a body.
Description-md5: 62e08e275b067b421f1aa474af463169
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/p/postnews/wiki/Home/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu