This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to install Feedmixer on your Linux Mint system. Feedmixer is a Python application designed to mix and merge RSS/Atom feeds, and transform the final output. It provides a flexible set of rules to filter and manipulate the feeds. Follow the steps mentioned below to have it running on your system.
Before starting the installation, you need to make sure that your system has Python installed. You can check the availability of Python by running the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python
You may need to install pip to download the python modules required for Feedmixer. Run the following command to install pip:
sudo apt-get install python-pip
You can directly download the Feedmixer zip file from Github or clone it using the git command.
To clone the repository, you can use the following command:
git clone https://github.com/cristoper/feedmixer
Feedmixer requires some Python modules, which can be installed using pip. You can install them by navigating to the directory where the downloaded feedmixer repository is present:
cd feedmixer
and then run:
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
The above command installs all the required Python modules.
To run feedmixer, navigate to the downloaded directory and run the following command:
python feedmixer.py
This will start the application.
This brings us to the end of this tutorial. You have successfully installed Feedmixer on your Linux Mint system. You can now start merging and transforming your RSS/Atom feeds using feedmixer.
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