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How to install Liferea in Ubuntu

To install Liferea in Ubuntu

Liferea stands for Linux Feed Reader, which is a lightweight aggregator for online news feed and weblogs. It allows the users to import and export feed lists. Installation of Liferea in Ubuntu is explained in this article.

Features

  • Support media group
  • Updated manpage
  • Read articles when offline
  • Permanently save headlines in news bin

Installation of Liferea

First you need to add the repository with the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/ppa
 up to date version of software I use - Awesome, Bluefish, Sylpheed - for current stable Ubuntu. Some are bleeding edge versions, others are backported from Debian Unstable.

This PPA is just used for testing. 

Please see for
- Sylpheed: https://launchpad.net/~klaus-vormweg/+archive/sylpheed
- Pan: https://launchpad.net/~klaus-vormweg/+archive/pan
- Awesome: https://launchpad.net/~klaus-vormweg/+archive/awesome
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 More info: https://launchpad.net/~klaus-vormweg/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9w_njxgd/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9w_njxgd/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key D36FE61D from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp9w_njxgd/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key D36FE61D: public key " Launchpad PPA for Klaus Vormweg"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK


Update the newly added repository with " apt-get update" command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update 
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/klaus-vormweg/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/klaus-vormweg/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1,280 B]
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/klaus-vormweg/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [1,284 B]
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/klaus-vormweg/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [912 B]
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                  
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB]                                 
Get:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [95.7 kB]        
Hit:8 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                                                               
Get:9 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [373 kB]          
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Get:23 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [319 kB]                                         
Get:24 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [316 kB]                                          
Get:25 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [109 kB]                                         
Get:26 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [88.6 kB]                                 
Get:27 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [89.9 kB]                                    
Fetched 2,910 kB in 17s (166 kB/s)                                                                                                 
Reading package lists... Done


Then run the below command to install the Liferea software.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install liferea -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  gnome-icon-theme libindicate5 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-common liferea-data python-gi
Suggested packages:
  kget python-gi-cairo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gnome-icon-theme libindicate5 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-common liferea liferea-data
  python-gi
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 360 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 62.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 gnome-icon-theme all 3.12.0-1ubuntu3 [9,630 kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/klaus-vormweg/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 liferea-data all 1.10.19-0~xenial0 [662 kB]
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/klaus-vormweg/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 liferea amd64 1.10.19-0~xenial0 [188 kB]
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 libindicate5 amd64 12.10.1-0ubuntu5 [27.5 kB]                     
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Setting up liferea-data (1.10.19-0~xenial0) ...
Setting up python-gi (3.20.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up liferea (1.10.19-0~xenial0) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...


Now its time to open the installed software through Unity dash. Type Liferea in the search bar and then click on the icon.

Homepage of liferea software will appear as shown below.

To add new subscription, just click on New subscription.

Enter the URL and then click OK option.

Newly created feed will display as shown below.

Click on any file heading, to see the selected file content on the preview screen.

To remove Liferea package

Remove the Liferea package with the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get remove liferea -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gnome-icon-theme libindicate5 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-common liferea-data python-gi
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  liferea
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 360 not upgraded.
After this operation, 595 kB disk space will be freed.
(Reading database ... 180250 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing liferea (1.10.19-0~xenial0) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.48.0-1ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Tag : Liferea
FAQ
Q
What does "Liferea" stand for and how do I pronounce it?
A
"Liferea" is the abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader. It doesn't really matter how you pronounce it. I sounds pretty strange when trying to pronounce it like an English word so I'd suggest to pronounce it like a Latin word.
Q
Is there any alternative of liferea?
A
QuiteRSS. NewsBlur. The Old Reader. CommaFeed.
Q
How to find the liferea version?
A
liferea --version
Q
Why doesn't Flash work (anymore)?
A
Easy flash support broke when Liferea 1.10 which uses GTK3 is used with WebkitGTK3 versions before 2.0 . There are the following known workarounds: Upgrade WebkitGTK3 to 2.0 or later Inst
Q
How to backup/copy all files?
A
As Liferea follows the XDG directory standard it is just copying the relevant XDG directories to the other computer. The following bash command shows you all non-cache files locations Liferea