slrnpull command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

slrnpull: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: slrnpull: command not found

Solutions to slrnpull: command not found

How To Fix slrnpull: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu slrnpull is provided by slrnpull package.

slrnpull is:

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.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install slrnpull

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install slrnpull.

sudo apt -y install slrnpull

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install slrnpull

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix slrnpull command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.