Install Liferea 1.11.17 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 15.10 and Ubuntu 14.10. Liferea is a news aggregator for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Liferea is a web feed reader/news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface that makes it easy to organize and browse feeds. Its GUI is similar to a desktop mail/newsclient, with an embedded graphical browser.
Distinguishing Features
- Read articles when offline.
- Synchronizes with
- InoReader (git master)
- Reedah (git master)
- TheOldReader (since 1.10)
- TinyTinyRSS (since 1.8)
- Permanently save headlines in news bins.
- Match items using search folders.
- Play Podcasts in Liferea
Liferea 1.11.7 is a bugfix release. Below is the Lifrea Changelog.
- Add support for media:group.
- Fixes issues with media:content.
- Bad .desktop categories definition
- Fixes rules no visible in searchdialog
- No “Download” tab in Tools/Preferences
- Segfault when sorting feeds in folder
- Fixes French translation
- Updated manpage
Install Liferea on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Liferea 1.11.17 on Ubuntu and Linux Mint Systems:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:klaus-vormweg/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install liferea
Once installed, open the Liferea from Ubuntu Dash or Menu.
Browser Integration
Liferea allows subscribing directly from Firefox and browser with similar mechanism.
- Firefox – If you want to subscribe from within Firefox you can configure it to add subscriptions to Liferea directly. To do so click the feed icon in the location entry. Firefox will then present a menu where you can configure a manual command instead of the Live Bookmarks to add subscriptions. There enter “liferea-add-feed” (without quotes)