In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Newspipe on Arch Linux. Newspipe is a self-hosted feed reader which allows you to aggregate news from various sources into a single user-friendly interface.
Before we begin, make sure your Arch Linux system is up to date.
sudo pacman -Syu
Before we can start with the installation of Newspipe, we need to install its dependencies. The following packages are required:
To install these, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo pacman -S git python pip nodejs
The next step is to clone the Newspipe repository from Git. We will use the git clone command to do this. Navigate to the directory where you want to clone the repository and execute the following command:
cd /path/to/clone/newspipe
git clone https://git.sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe.git
Now we will install the Python dependencies required by Newspipe using pip. Execute the following command in your terminal:
cd newspipe
pip install -U -r requirements.txt
Newspipe also has some frontend dependencies that we need to install. To do so, navigate to the newspipe/frontend directory and execute the following command:
cd frontend
npm install
Copy the default configuration file:
cp newspipe.cfg.example newspipe.cfg
Edit the configuration file to change the settings as needed. You will find the file newspipe.cfg in the root directory of the cloned repository.
nano newspipe.cfg
Here we will specify the default settings, databases, and feeds. Refer to the official documentation for more details.
Finally, we can start the application with the following command:
newspipe run
This starts the server on http://localhost:8080. You should now be able to access Newspipe in your browser.
We have learned how to install Newspipe on Arch Linux. You can now use it to aggregate news from various sources in one place. If you want to learn more about how to use Newspipe, refer to the official documentation.
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