FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted, and web-based application that can help you organize and read RSS feeds. If you are using Fedora CoreOS and want to install FreshRSS on your system, then this guide is for you.
Before you begin, you need:
Podman is a container engine that can help you create, manage, and run containers on your Fedora CoreOS system.
To install Podman, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo dnf install podman -y
Create a data directory to store all the FreshRSS data.
sudo mkdir /var/lib/freshrss
Run the FreshRSS container using Podman.
sudo podman run -d --name freshrss -p 8080:80 -v /var/lib/freshrss:/var/www/FreshRSS/data docker.io/freshrss/freshrss
This command will download the FreshRSS container image from Docker Hub and start the container. The -d option will run the container in the background, --name option will give it the name freshrss, -p option will forward the port 80 of the container to the port 8080 of the host machine (so you can access FreshRSS from a web browser), and -v option will mount the data directory created in the previous step inside the container at /var/www/FreshRSS/data directory.
You can now access FreshRSS by going to your web browser and typing the following URL:
http://localhost:8080/
This will display the FreshRSS login page. You can create a new account or login with the default username and password (admin and admin). Once you are logged in, you can add RSS feeds and start reading them.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install FreshRSS on Fedora CoreOS using Podman. You can now use FreshRSS to organize and read RSS feeds on your system.
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