In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install The Epube, which is a epub generator plugin for the Tiny Tiny RSS web-based RSS reader, on macOS using the command line.
Before we begin, you will need the following:
If you have not yet installed Tiny Tiny RSS, you can follow this tutorial:
https://www.mamp.info/en/documentation/how-to-setup-tiny-tiny-rss-on-macos/
Once you have Tiny Tiny RSS installed and running, follow these steps to install The Epube:
Open Terminal on your macOS machine.
Install the necessary dependencies for The Epube using Homebrew by running the following command:
brew install pandoc
Navigate to your Tiny Tiny RSS plugin folder using the following command:
cd ~/Sites/tt-rss/plugins/
Note: The path to your Tiny Tiny RSS plugin folder may be different depending on where you installed Tiny Tiny RSS.
Clone The Epube repository to the plugins folder by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/SpX01/epube.git
Change the ownership of the epube folder to your web server user and group by running the following command:
sudo chown -R _www:_www epube
Restart your web server by running the following command:
sudo apachectl restart
Note: If you are using a different web server, such as Nginx, you will need to restart that instead.
Log in to your Tiny Tiny RSS instance, and you should now see The Epube plugin in the Plugins section of the Tiny Tiny RSS preferences.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed The Epube plugin for Tiny Tiny RSS on your macOS system. You can now use The Epube to generate epub files from your Tiny Tiny RSS feeds.
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