gnome: November 2008 Archives

Since I use only Ubuntu for about two and half years, i was searching for a while for a good Feed aggregator. I have first tested liferea 1.4.x that comes in the repos but i wasn't really satisfied with the speed. Then I looked into using Straw and Blam!< but i didn't like the interface for neither of them. I settled for a while with the eclise based feedreader RSSOwl, which is a great tool, but unfortunatelly when i switched to 64bit i had to ditch it since it was way too heavy on the CPU (not sure if it was due to Java on 64bit or the fact that i used a dev release of RSSOwl).

I decided to give Liferea 1.5.x a try (although it's a development release) and i have setup a step by step tutorial on how to install Liferea 1.5.5 on Ubuntu. I wanted to test it's webkit backend so I had to install some dev libraries first.

Step 1: Install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install intltool libwebkit-dev libgconf2-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libsqlite3-dev libglade2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libnotify-dev libnm-glib-dev liblualib50-dev libavahi-ui-dev

Step 2: Download Liferea 1.5.x source from sourceforge:
wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/liferea/liferea-1.5.5.tar.gz

Step 3: Extract it:
tar zxvf liferea-1.5.5.tar.gz

Step 4: Configure and compile:
cd liferea-1.5.5
./configure --prefix=/usr
You should get an output similar to the following:
make
sudo make install

Step 5: You're done. You can start liferea by going to Applications -> Internet -> Liferea Feed Reader or from terminal by "liferea"

I am realy happy with the speed Liferea is rendering pages via webkit and with the fact that i can have a huge cache (if i want to :P)