Newspipe is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator and reader. In this tutorial, we will describe the steps required to install and configure Newspipe on Ubuntu Server Latest.
We assume that Ubuntu Server Latest is already installed, and you have sudo privileges.
The first step is to install the required packages for Newspipe to work correctly. Run the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install git python3-pip libpq-dev python3-dev
This command updates the package list and installs git, python3-pip, libpq-dev, and python3-dev.
It is recommended to create a new system user for running Newspipe. Run the following command to create a new system user:
sudo adduser newspipe
You need to provide a password and other details for the new user.
Switch to the home directory of the newly created user:
cd /home/newspipe
Then, clone the Newspipe repository by running the following command:
sudo -u newspipe git clone https://git.sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe.git newspipe
This command clones the repository into the newspipe directory in the home directory of the newspipe user.
Navigate to the newspipe directory and install the Python dependencies:
cd newspipe
sudo -u newspipe pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt
This command installs the necessary Python dependencies in the home directory of the newspipe user.
Newspipe requires a PostgreSQL database to store its data. First, create a new PostgreSQL database and user:
sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE newspipe;"
sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE USER newspipe WITH PASSWORD 'newspipepassword';"
sudo -u postgres psql -c "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE newspipe TO newspipe;"
This command creates a database named newspipe, a user named newspipe with a password, and grants the necessary privileges to the user.
Create a new configuration file for Newspipe:
cp config.ini.example config.ini
Open the config.ini file with your favorite text editor, and update the following variables:
[DEFAULT]
...
SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = postgresql://newspipe:newspipepassword@localhost/newspipe
[Server]
...
# Change the host and port if necessary
host = localhost
port = 5000
Change the SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI variable to match your PostgreSQL database configuration. If your database is located on a different server, change the localhost value to the server's IP address or hostname.
Run the following command to initialize the database tables:
sudo -u newspipe python3 manage.py db upgrade
This command applies the necessary database migrations.
Finally, start the Newspipe server by running the following command:
sudo -u newspipe python3 manage.py runserver
Newspipe should now be running on port 5000. You can access it by navigating to http://localhost:5000 in your web browser.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install and configure Newspipe on Ubuntu Server Latest. Now, you can start using Newspipe to aggregate and read RSS feeds on your own server.
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