NewsBlur is a popular open-source feed reader that can be installed on various operating systems, including OpenBSD. This tutorial will guide you through the installation process on OpenBSD.
Before we begin, you need to ensure that your OpenBSD system meets the following prerequisites:
NewsBlur requires various dependencies to function correctly. Before installing NewsBlur, we need to install these dependencies. OpenBSD uses pkg_add to manage packages. Run the following command as the root user or a user with sudo privileges to install the required dependencies:
sudo pkg_add py3-pip py3-lxml py3-tornado py3-psycopg2 py3-pillow
Next, you need to download and extract the NewsBlur source code. Run the following command to download the NewsBlur source code:
sudo -u _newsblur git clone https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur.git /usr/local/www/newsblur
This command will download the NewsBlur source code to the /usr/local/www/newsblur directory.
NewsBlur uses PostgreSQL as its database system. Before running NewsBlur, we need to configure PostgreSQL. Run the following command to configure PostgreSQL:
sudo -u _postgresql initdb /var/postgresql/data
sudo -u _postgresql createuser -s newsblur
sudo -u _postgresql createdb newsblur
This command creates a new PostgreSQL user and database for NewsBlur.
Now we are ready to start NewsBlur. Run the following commands to start NewsBlur:
sudo -u _newsblur sh /usr/local/www/newsblur/utils/docker/setup_local.sh /var/newsblur
sudo -u _newsblur /var/newsblur/venv/bin/python /usr/local/www/newsblur/manage.py createdb --noinput
sudo -u _newsblur /var/newsblur/venv/bin/python /usr/local/www/newsblur/manage.py migrate --noinput
sudo -u _newsblur /var/newsblur/venv/bin/python /usr/local/www/newsblur/manage.py bootstrap --noinput
sudo -u _newsblur /var/newsblur/venv/bin/python /usr/local/www/newsblur/manage.py init_redis
sudo -u _newsblur /var/newsblur/venv/bin/python /usr/local/www/newsblur/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
These commands will start the NewsBlur server with default settings. You can now access NewsBlur by navigating to http://your-server-ip:8000 in your web browser.
NewsBlur is a powerful feed reader and is straightforward to install on OpenBSD. Follow the steps above, and you will have your NewsBlur server up and running in no time.
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