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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>The Newsbeuter RSS Feedreader</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./docbook-xsl.css" type="text/css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1" /></head><body><div class="article" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="id2408942"></a>The Newsbeuter RSS Feedreader</h1></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Andreas</span> <span class="surname">Krennmair</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><div class="address"><p><code class="email"><<a href="mailto:ak@synflood.at">ak@synflood.at</a>></code></p></div></div></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2458043">Introduction</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2458057">Why "Newsbeuter"?</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2458081">Installation</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2458091">Downloading Newsbeuter</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2494644">Dependencies</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2494733">Compiling and Installing</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2494744">First Steps</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2504233">Example Configuration</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2504259">Configuring Colors</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2504518">Advanced Features</a></span></dt><dd><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2504524">Tagging</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2504584">Podcast Support</a></span></dt></dl></dd><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2504976">Feedback</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#id2505009">License</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id2458043"></a>Introduction</h2></div></div></div><p>Newsbeuter is an RSS feedreader. RSS is a number of widely-used XML formats to
transmit, publish and syndicate articles, for example news or blog articles.
Newsbeuter is designed to be used on text terminals on Unix or Unix-like
systems such as Linux, BSD or Mac OS X.</p><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="id2458057"></a>Why "Newsbeuter"?</h3></div></div></div><p>"Newsbeuter" is a pun on the German word "Wildbeuter", which means
"hunter-gatherer". During the stone age, people hunted and gathered their food,
and these days, they hunt and gather news and information. Credits for this
idea goes to Clifford Wolf, who submitted it to a little competiton that was
started when I got aware that the original name would violate French and
European registered trademarks.</p></div></div><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id2458081"></a>Installation</h2></div></div></div><p>This chapter describes how to compile and install newsbeuter from source.</p><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="id2458091"></a>Downloading Newsbeuter</h3></div></div></div><p>Newsbeuter is available as source package. Simply go to
<a href="http://synflood.at/newsbeuter.html" target="_top">http://synflood.at/newsbeuter.html</a> and download the latest source package,
which is usually in the .tar.gz file format. Alternatively, you can check out
the latest development source tree from the newsbeuter SVN repository by
running the following command on the commandline:</p><p>svn co http://bereshit.synflood.at/svn/noos/trunk</p></div><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="id2494644"></a>Dependencies</h3></div></div></div><p>Newsbeuter depends on a number of libraries to function correctly. This table
lists these dependencies. Please be aware that the list libraries may
themselves depend on other libraries. These dependencies are not listed here.
Please also be aware that you need a recent C++ compiler. Currently, newsbeuter
has only been tested with GCC.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li>
Libidn: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/" target="_top">http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/</a>
</li><li>
STFL: <a href="http://www.clifford.at/stfl/" target="_top">http://www.clifford.at/stfl/</a>
</li><li>
SQLite 3: <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/" target="_top">http://www.sqlite.org/</a>
</li><li>
libmRss: <a href="http://www2.autistici.org/bakunin/libmrss/" target="_top">http://www2.autistici.org/bakunin/libmrss/</a>
</li><li>
libnXml: <a href="http://www2.autistici.org/bakunin/libnxml/" target="_top">http://www2.autistici.org/bakunin/libnxml/</a>
</li></ul></div></div><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a id="id2494733"></a>Compiling and Installing</h3></div></div></div><p>After you've downloaded and installed the dependencies mentioned above, you can
start compiling and installing newsbeuter. To compile newsbeuter, simply run
"make" in the source tree. After a short time, this should complete
successfully, and you can go on with installation by running "make install". By
default, this will install the "newsbeuter" binary to the /usr/local/bin
directory. You can provide an alternative installation path using the prefix
parameter, e.g. running "make install prefix=/opt/newsbeuter" will install the
binary to the directory /opt/newsbeuter/bin.</p></div></div><div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="id2494744"></a>First Steps</h2></div></div></div><p>After you've installed newsbeuter, you can run it for the first time by typing
"newsbeuter" on your command prompt. This will bring you the following message:</p><pre class="literallayout">Error: no URLs configured. Please fill the file /Users/ak/.newsbeuter/urls with RSS feed URLs or import an OPML file.</pre><pre class="literallayout">newsbeuter 0.3
usage: ./newsbeuter [-i <file>|-e] [-u <urlfile>] [-c <cachefile>] [-h]
-r refresh feeds on start
-e export OPML feed to stdout
-i <file> import OPML file
-u <urlfile> read RSS feed URLs from <urlfile>
-c <cachefile> use <cachefile> as cache file
-C <configfile> read configuration from <configfile>
-h this help</pre><p>This means that newsbeuter can't start without any configured feeds. To add
feeds to newsbeuter, you can either add URLs to the configuration file
$HOME/.newsbeuter/urls or you can import an OPML file by running "newsbeuter -i
blogroll.opml".</p><p>Now you can run newsbeuter again, and it will present you with a controllable
list of the URLs that you configured previously. You can now start downloading
the feeds, either by pressing "R" to download all feeds, or by pressing "r" to
download the currently selected feed. You can then select a feed you want to
read, and by pressing "Enter", you can go to the article list for this feed.
This works even while the downloading is still in progress. You can now see
the list of available articles by their title. A "N" on the left indicates that
an article wasn't read yet. Pressing Enter brings you to the content of the
article. You can scroll through this text, and also run a browser (default:
lynx) to view the complete article if the content is empty or just an abstract
or a short description. Pressing "q" brings you back to the article list, and
pressing "q" again brings you back to the feed list. Pressing "q" a third time
then closes newsbeuter.</p><p>Newsbeuter caches the article that it downloads. This means that when you start
newsbeuter again and reload a feed, the old articles can still be read even if
they aren't in the current RSS feeds anymore. Optionally you can configure how
many articles shall be preserved by feed so that the article backlog doesn't
grow endlessly (see below).</p><p>Several aspects of newsbeuter's behaviour can be configured via a configuration
file, by default $HOME/.newsbeuter/config. This configuration files contains
lines in the form "<config-command> <arg1> …". The configuration file can
also contain comments, which start with the <span class="emphasis"><em>#</em></span> character and go as far as the
end of line. If you need to enter a configuration argument that contains
spaces, use quotes (") around the whole argument.</p><div class="table"><a id="id2456331"></a><p class="title"><b>Table 1. Configuration Commands</b></p><table summary="Configuration Commands" cellpadding="4px" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;border-top: 2px solid #527bbd; border-bottom: 2px solid #527bbd; border-left: 2px solid #527bbd; border-right: 2px solid #527bbd; "><colgroup><col align="left" /><col align="left" /><col align="left" /><col align="left" /><col align="left" /></colgroup><thead><tr><th style="border-right: 1px solid ; border-bottom: 1px solid ; " align="left">
Configuration Command
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Argument(s)
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