LibreNews is a free and open-source news client that allows users to read news from various sources. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of LibreNews on NixOS Latest.
Before proceeding with the installation process, you need to have the following prerequisites:
Follow the below steps to install LibreNews on NixOS Latest:
Open the terminal window on your NixOS Latest system by pressing CTRL + ALT + T
.
pkgs.chrome
PackageExecute the following command to install the pkgs.chrome
package:
sudo nix-env -iA pkgs.chrome
pkgs.librenews
PackageExecute the following command to install the pkgs.librenews
package:
sudo nix-env -iA pkgs.librenews
After the installation process is completed, verify it by running the librenews
command. The LibreNews client should open successfully:
librenews
To use the LibreNews client effectively, you need to create a configuration file. You can do this by adding the following lines to your configuration.nix
file:
services.librenews = {
enable = true;
feeds = [{
title = "Example Feed";
url = "http://example.com/feed";
}];
};
Reload the configuration file by running the following command:
sudo nixos-rebuild switch
Open the LibreNews client by running the following command:
librenews
You should now have LibreNews installed on your NixOS Latest system.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install LibreNews on NixOS Latest. Following these steps, you can get started with LibreNews and read news from various sources.
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