CommaFeed is an open-source feed reader that allows you to subscribe to and read RSS and Atom feeds. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install CommaFeed on Linux Mint.
Before you start the installation process, you need to ensure that you have the following prerequisites:
First, we need to install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on our system. It is used to run the CommaFeed application.
To install Java, run the following command:
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre-headless
You can verify the installation by running the following command:
java -version
You should see something like this:
openjdk version "1.8.0_292"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_292-b10)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.292-b10, mixed mode)
Next, we need to download the CommaFeed application. You can download the latest version of CommaFeed from the official website https://www.commafeed.com/.
Here's how you can download the latest version using wget:
wget https://github.com/Athou/commafeed/releases/latest/download/commafeed.jar
We recommend creating a system service file for the CommaFeed application. This will ensure that the application runs automatically at boot time and can be managed easily.
Create a file named commafeed.service in the /etc/systemd/system/ directory with the following contents:
[Unit]
Description=CommaFeed service
After=network-online.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=<your username>
Group=<your group>
WorkingDirectory=/home/<your username>/commafeed/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar /home/<your username>/commafeed/commafeed.jar
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Note: Replace
<your username>with your actual username.
After creating the system service, we can start the CommaFeed service using the following command:
sudo systemctl start commafeed.service
You can verify that the service is running by running the following command:
sudo systemctl status commafeed.service
You should see active (running) in the output.
Finally, we can enable the CommaFeed service to start automatically at boot time using the following command:
sudo systemctl enable commafeed.service
That's it! You have successfully installed and configured CommaFeed on your Linux Mint system.
In this tutorial, we learned how to install CommaFeed on Linux Mint. We also saw how to create a system service for CommaFeed, which ensures that the application runs automatically at boot time.
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