LibreNews is an open-source news aggregator that provides clean, fast, and friendly user interface to read news from popular sources. In this tutorial, we will go through a step-by-step guide on how to install LibreNews on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before we start, make sure you have the following prerequisites:
Since LibreNews is built with Node.js, we need to install Node.js first to install and run LibreNews on our system. Run the following command to install Node.js:
sudo apk add nodejs
Next, we need Git to clone the LibreNews repository from Github. Run the following command to install Git:
sudo apk add git
Now, we need to clone the LibreNews repository to our system. Run the following command to clone the LibreNews repository:
git clone https://github.com/librenews/librenews.git
After we have cloned the LibreNews repository, we need to install its dependencies using NPM. Change your directory to librenews and run the following command:
cd librenews/
npm install
Once all the dependencies are installed, we can now build LibreNews. We can build LibreNews in two ways: production build or development build. In this tutorial, we will build LibreNews in production mode. Run the following command to build LibreNews in production mode:
npm run build
After we have built LibreNews, we can start it using the following command:
npm run start
Once LibreNews is started, you can access it by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:8080.
Congratulations! You have installed LibreNews on Alpine Linux latest. Now you can use LibreNews to read news from popular sources. For more information on how to use and configure LibreNews, please refer to its official documentation https://librenews.io/docs.
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