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Package: trn4 (4.0-test76-16 and others) [non-free]

Threaded USENET news reader, based on rn (4.0 beta test)

trn is a threaded news reader with a long history, descended from Larry Wall's rn (part of the second generation of newsreaders). It has a powerful full screen text mode user interface, where most actions are available at the press of a single key. It is highly configurable.

This version of trn reads news from a news server via NNTP (the Network News Transfer Protocol). You must have a news server available - large sites usually provide a site-wide server.

If you install a news server on your system (either containing just local newsgroups or with a partial or full USENET feed) you can configure trn to access it.

This is a separate package from trn because trn 4.0 has enough substantial changes in its default behaviour (for instance, the group selector is new in 4.0) that some users prefer to stay with an older version of trn.

Tags: Networking: Client, Network Protocol: NNTP, Role: Program, Interface Toolkit: Ncurses TUI

Other Packages Related to trn4

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: base-files (>= 2.2.0)
    Debian base system miscellaneous files
  • dep: debconf (>= 1.2.0)
    Debian configuration management system
    or debconf-2.0
    virtual package provided by cdebconf, cdebconf-udeb, debconf
  • dep: inn2-inews
    NNTP client news injector, from InterNetNews (INN)
    or inews
    virtual package provided by inn, inn2-inews
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3) [amd64, hppa, i386, mips]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.4) [powerpc, s390]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.6) [sparc]
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) [armel, mipsel]
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.3) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
    dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.4) [alpha]
  • dep: libncurses5 (>= 5.6+20071006-3)
    shared libraries for terminal handling
  • sug: ispell
    International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector)

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alpha 4.0-test76-16 494.2 kB1288 kB [list of files]
amd64 4.0-test76-16 437.6 kB1072 kB [list of files]
armel 4.0-test76-15 415.3 kB1032 kB [list of files]
hppa 4.0-test76-16 443.8 kB1084 kB [list of files]
i386 4.0-test76-16 392.9 kB1252 kB [list of files]
ia64 4.0-test76-16 601.9 kB1760 kB [list of files]
mips 4.0-test76-16 446.4 kB1260 kB [list of files]
mipsel 4.0-test76-15 452.6 kB1256 kB [list of files]
powerpc 4.0-test76-16 445.8 kB1148 kB [list of files]
s390 4.0-test76-16 442.1 kB1104 kB [list of files]
sparc 4.0-test76-16 420.3 kB1072 kB [list of files]