LiFeRea: A visual guide to install and configure Linux Feed Reader in easy steps

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October 28, 2008 ||

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If I were to boast something about me then it would be the fact that I am a voracious feed reader. And I am a big fan of feeddemon . But unfortunately this lovely feed reader is not available for Linux and I did not want to take the pain of using Firefox feed reader or for that matter any other alternative like thunderbird or Google reader. The reason is I wanted something that was totally a desktop application dedicated to only feed reading without any other strings attached.My search ended soon as I came across this lovely feed reader of Linux called as Liferea.

Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an aggregator for online news feeds. 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. It is a reader for RSS/RDF feeds which also supports CDF channels, Atom/Echo/PIE feeds and OCS directories.

So how do you get this lovely feed reader. If you are on Ubuntu the easiest way to get Liferea is by getting a debian package. As we try our best to give you GUI means of installing stuff on Ubuntu, getting a deb package of Lifrea is the best option. You can get the package here.

All you have to do now is to install it by double clicking and entering your admin password. You ca access Lifereas from the Application menu.

Application->Internet->Liferea Feed Reader

You can also install Liferea in Ubunut by typing the following command in a terminal window.

sudo aptget install liferea

Once you open Liferea you can import your feeds into liferea very easily. All you have to do is have your favorite feeds exported from your other reader in OPML format.