Yarr is a simple yet powerful RSS reader that can be easily installed on Alpine Linux using a few commands. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process.
Before we start, ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
To start with, we need to install a few dependencies that are required to compile Yarr. Run the following command to install the dependencies:
apk add git yarn nodejs npm build-base cairo-dev pango-dev libjpeg-turbo-dev giflib-dev
This command will install Git, Yarn, Node.js, NPM, build-base, cairo-dev, pango-dev, libjpeg-turbo-dev, and giflib-dev.
Next, we need to clone Yarr's repository using Git. Run the following command to clone it:
git clone https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr.git
This command will clone Yarr into a directory called yarr.
After cloning the Yarr repository, we need to install the required packages. To do that, change the working directory to the cloned repository and run the following command:
yarn install
This command will install all the required packages.
Now, we need to build Yarr using the following command:
npm run build
This command will build Yarr into a build directory.
Finally, we can run Yarr using the following command:
npm start
This command will start Yarr on port 3000. To access it, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Yarr on Alpine Linux Latest. We hope this tutorial was helpful to you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask us in the comments section below.
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