ABANDONED! An actively maintained fork is available in newsboat repo

Newsbeuter

by Andreas Krennmair ak@newsbeuter.org

Newsbeuter is an RSS feed reader for the text console. Zed Shaw called it "The Mutt of Feed Readers".

It is designed to run on Unix-like operating systems such as GNU/Linux and FreeBSD. NetBSD is currently not supported, due to technical limitations.

Downloading

You can download the latest version of newsbeuter from the following website: http://www.newsbeuter.org/

Alternatively, you can check out the latest version from the newsbeuter Git repository (hosted on GitHub):

git clone git://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter.git

Dependencies

Newsbeuter depends on a number of libraries, which need to be installed before newsbeuter can be compiled.

• GCC 4.9 or newer, or Clang 3.6 or newer
• STFL (version 0.21 or newer)
• SQLite3 (version 3.5 or newer)
• libcurl (version 7.18.0 or newer)
• GNU gettext (on systems that don't provide gettext in the libc): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/
• pkg-config
• libxml2
• json-c (version 0.11 or newer)

Debian unstable comes with ready-to-use packages for these dependencies.

Installation

Compiling and installing newsbeuter is as simple as:

make
make install

(And if you ever need to uninstall it, use make uninstall.)

Tests

If you're a developer, here's how you can run the test suite:

make -j5 PROFILE=1 all test
(cd test && TMPDIR=/dev/shm ./test --order rand)

Note the use of ramdisk as TMPDIR: some of our tests require temporary files, which degrades the performance quite a bit if TMPDIR isn't in-memory.

Contact

Andreas Krennmair ak@newsbeuter.org

Support

• Bugs and whatnot should be reported to the issue tracker
• Drop us a line at Newsbeuter mailing list
• Chat with developers and fellow users on #newsbeuter at Freenode

License

Newsbeuter is licensed under the MIT/X Consortium License. See the file LICENSE for further details.