Install RSSOwl Feed Reader on Ubuntu or Any Linux Distro
RSSOwl is an excellent, easy-to-configure RSS and Atom feed reader, available for Linux, Mac and Windows. It features offline viewing and sharing, a news filter, instant search, notifications, news bins and labels. It also offers a list of recommended feed for the user which is very handy. This tutorial shows how to install RSSOwl 2.2.1 on Ubuntu via GetDeb repository. You can also install it on any other Linux distro.
Install RSSOwl on Ubuntu via GetDeb Repo
First add GetDeb repository to Ubuntu by editing the sources.list file in terminal.
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Scroll down to the bottom of the file. Then paste the following line which will enable GetDeb repo.
deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps
Press Ctrl+O to save then file. Ctrl+X to close the file. And then run the following command to import GetDeb GPG key to your Ubuntu system so that APT can verify the package integrity.
wget -q -O- http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
Now update local package index and install RSSOwl.
sudo apt update sudo apt install rssowl
Once installed, start it from Unity Dash.
Or start it by running this command:
rssowl
Install RSSOwl on any Linux Distribution
Go to the official site (www.rssowl.org), click the Linux download link.
Then open a terminal and navigate to the download folder where the RSSOwl file is located. For example,
cd Downloads
Then install the unzip command line utility.
Debian/Ubutnu: sudo apt install unzip Fedora/CentOS/Redhat: sudo yum install unzip Arch Linux: sudo pacman -S unzip
And unzip the downloaded file.
unzip RSSOwl.2.2.1.Linux-x64.zip
A rssowl directory will be created. It contains all the files needed to run RSSOwl. To keep a clean file system, we move this directory and all its contents to /opt/
sudo mv rssowl/ /opt/
Then create a symlink.
sudo ln -s /opt/rssowl/RSSOwl /usr/bin/rssowl
And now you can start it by issuing the following command in terminal.
rssowl
Wrapping Up
I hope this tutorial helped you install RSSOwl Feed Reader. You may also want to read:
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