In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to install Newsdash on your NetBSD machine. Newsdash is a simple news RSS aggregator that allows you to follow feeds from multiple sources in one place. It is an open-source project hosted on GitHub, and it offers a user-friendly interface to read news.
Before we begin, make sure that you have administrative privileges on your NetBSD machine.
Newsdash depends on several libraries to work correctly. Therefore, before installing Newsdash, we need to make sure that we have all the necessary dependencies installed on our system. Run the following command to install the required packages:
sudo pkg_add -v curl ap24-php71-apache curl
This command will install the curl package that is needed to retrieve news feeds, ap24-php71-apache that includes PHP runtime for Apache, and apache to serve the web pages.
Next, we need to download Newsdash from its GitHub repository. You can use git to clone the latest version of Newsdash onto your system:
git clone https://github.com/buzz/newsdash.git
Once the cloning is complete, navigate inside the Newsdash directory by running the following command:
cd newsdash
Now that we have Newsdash on our NetBSD machine, it's time to configure it. The configuration file is named config.php and is located in the newsdash directory. You can edit the file using your preferred text editor. The configuration file contains four sections:
We will focus on the Site configuration section in this tutorial. Open the configuration file, and edit the following values:
$site_title = "Newsdash"; // the title of your Newsdash site
$site_url = "http://localhost/newsdash"; // the URL of your Newsdash site
Save the changes and exit the file.
Before we can access Newsdash on our web browser, we need to start the Apache and PHP services. The following commands start the Apache and PHP services:
echo 'apache24=YES' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'php_fpm=YES' >> /etc/rc.conf
service apache24 start
service php_fpm start
Now that we have Apache and PHP running, we can access Newsdash by opening a web browser and navigating to http://localhost/newsdash. You should see the Newsdash web interface on your screen, and you can start adding your favorite news feeds.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Newsdash on your NetBSD machine.
Newsdash is an easy-to-use and lightweight RSS aggregator that lets you read news from multiple sources in one place. In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Newsdash on your NetBSD machine step by step. With Newsdash, you can enjoy keeping up-to-date with the latest news without the need to visit multiple websites.
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