newsbeuter

ABANDONED! An actively maintained fork is available in newsboat repo

Newsbeuter

by Andreas Krennmair

Newsbeuter is an RSS feed reader for the text console. Zed Shaw called it "The Mutt of Feed Readers".

It is designed to run on Unix-like operating systems such as GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. NetBSD is currently not supported, due to technical limitations.

Downloading

You can download the latest version of newsbeuter from the following website: http://www.newsbeuter.org/

Alternatively, you can check out the latest version from the newsbeuter Git repository (hosted on GitHub):

git clone git://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter.git

Dependencies

Newsbeuter depends on a number of libraries, which need to be installed before newsbeuter can be compiled.

• GCC 4.9 or newer, or Clang 3.6 or newer
• STFL (version 0.21 or newer)
• SQLite3 (version 3.5 or newer)
• libcurl (version 7.18.0 or newer)
• GNU gettext (on systems that don't provide gettext in the libc): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/
• pkg-config
• libxml2
• json-c (version 0.11 or newer)

Debian unstable comes with ready-to-use packages for these dependencies.

Installation

Compiling and installing newsbeuter is as simple as:

make
make install

(And if you ever need to uninstall it, use make uninstall.)

Tests

If you're a developer, here's how you can run the test suite:

make -j5 PROFILE=1 all test
(cd test && TMPDIR=/dev/shm ./test --order rand)

Note the use of ramdisk as TMPDIR: some of our tests require temporary files, which degrades the performance quite a bit if TMPDIR isn't in-memory.

Contact

Andreas Krennmair

Support

• Bugs and whatnot should be reported to the issue tracker
• Drop us a line at Newsbeuter mailing list
• Chat with developers and fellow users on #newsbeuter at Freenode

License

Newsbeuter is licensed under the MIT/X Consortium License. See the file LICENSE for further details.