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Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader. It is a news
aggregator for online news feeds. It supports a number of different
feed formats including RSS/RDF, CDF and Atom. There are many other
news readers available, but these others are not available for
Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea
tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to
install news aggregator for GTK/GNOME.
This documentation was last updated for Liferea version 1.4.
Installation
============
To install Liferea you can either get a package for your
Linux distribution or try to compile and install Liferea
from the Source Tarball. In the following you will find
short hints for several platforms. See below to find
how to compile the tarball.
Ubuntu/ There are official packages in both Debian and Ubuntu
Debian:
To install Liferea run:
apt-get install liferea
RedHat/ For FC 3 and 4 you can install Liferea from the
Fedora: Extras repositories. Just run:
yum install liferea
Dag Wieers provides packages for both Fedora which
can be found at http://dag.wieers.com/packages/liferea/.
SuSE: Since SuSE 10.1 there are official Liferea package.
Older packages can be found at:
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/packages/Network/liferea/
Gentoo: There is an ebuild available at:
http://www.breakmygentoo.net/ebuilds/
FreeBSD: There are Liferea packages (built by Hye-Shik Chang) at
http://www.freshports.org/net/liferea/
Fink The Fink project also supports Liferea:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/liferea
Solaris Since 0.9.2 there are Solaris packages built
be Jeremy Teo. This package was built to work
with the Solaris gtk2,libxml2,gconf2 and
libgtkhtml packages from blastwave.org.
Browser Integration
===================
Liferea allows direct subscriptions from Firefox 1.5+
and Epiphany. Epiphany provides a standard plugin that
allows adding subscription directly to Liferea.
If you want to subscribe from within Firefox 1.5 you need
to install an extension manually. Although there are
several extensions that might do the task one called
"FeedBag" is supplied with the source tarball. To
install it open feedbag.xpi from the source root
directory with Firefox. This should start the
installation procedure. Once installed clicking the
live bookmark icon should add subscriptions to Liferea.
If you want to subscribe from within Firefox 2.0 you don't
need to install the "FeedBag" extension. Instead you can
configure Firefox 2.0 to add subscriptions to Liferea
directly. To do so click the feed icon in the location
entry. Firefox will then present a menu where you can
configure a manual command instead of the Live Bookmarks
to add subscriptions. Liferea supplies a script named
"liferea-add-feed" that you can tell Firefox to use.
Compiling from Source
=====================
If you want you can compile Liferea. Download the tarball from
the SourcForge project page and extract with:
tar zxvf liferea-1.4.0.tar.gz
Of course you should adjust the filename. After unpacking
run the standard autotools commands:
./configure
make
make install
Compiling from SVN
==================
To anonymously check out a source copy execute this:
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/liferea/trunk .
More information about using SVN with Liferea can be
found at http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=87005
After checking out a source copy you need to prepare the
compile environment. Executing the following commands should
do the trick:
autoreconf -i
intltoolize
If everything went well you can continue with "configure"
as described in the previous section.
Dependencies
============
The library dependencies for Liferea are: gtk2, gconf2, libxml2,
libxslt, sqlite3 and either libgtkembedmoz, libxul or gtkhtml2.
If you want to use the Mozilla browser module you need a Mozilla,
Firefox or XulRunner installation containing libgtkembedmoz.so.
Help Wanted
===========
If you want to help please subscribe to the liferea-devel mailing
list available on the SourceForge project page. After each release
we discuss new tasks to be done. Just join the discussion!
If you want to do a translation write a mail to the mailing list
or just upload the translation as a patch to SourceForge.
Known Problems
==============
Please check the bug tracker on SourceForge for known problems! If you
don't find your problem please make a report (forum, bugs...) on
the SourceForge project page (http://liferea.sf.net) or send a email
to the project mailing list (liferea-devel@lists.sourceforge.net).
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