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Package: slrn (0.9.8.1pl1-28) [universe]

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Maintainer:

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Norbert Tretkowski

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

Similar packages:

threaded news reader (fast for slow links)

Slrn is a threaded news reader with color support that is designed to read news fast over slow links.

Slrn can read usenet news via NNTP or directly from a local news spool.

Slrn can be heavily customized from its rc file, and even includes a built in macro language. There is also support for killfiles and article scoring.

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  • dep: debianutils (>= 1.13.1)
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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
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  • dep: libcanlock2 (>= 2b-1)
    library for creating and verifying Usenet cancel locks
  • dep: libgnutls13 (>= 1.4.0-0)
    the GNU TLS library - runtime library
  • dep: libslang2 (>= 2.0.6-3)
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  • sug: metamail
    implementation of MIME
  • sug: slrnpull
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Download for all available architectures
Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 834.1 kB2256 kB [list of files]
i386 808.8 kB2212 kB [list of files]
powerpc 829.9 kB2268 kB [list of files]