Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liferea on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is liferea
liferea is:
Liferea is a feed reader, a news reader, and a podcast client that brings
together all of the content from your favorite web subscriptions into a simple
interface with an embedded graphical browser that’s easy to organize and
browse.
It supports:
* aggregating feeds in all the major syndication formats (including
RSS/RDF, Atom, CDF, and more);
* synchronizing feeds across devices, with TinyTinyRSS and
TheOldReader support;
* downloading articles for offline reading;
* permanently saving headlines in news bins;
* playing podcasts directly in Liferea’s browser interface;
* social networking / web integration so you can share your favorite news
articles to Facebook, Google+, Reddit, Twitter, Slashdot, Digg, Yahoo and
many more.
Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader.
There are three methods to install liferea on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liferea Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liferea using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liferea
Install liferea Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liferea using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liferea
Install liferea Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install liferea using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liferea
How To Uninstall liferea on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the liferea package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liferea
Uninstall liferea And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liferea and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liferea
Remove liferea Configurations and Data
To remove liferea configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liferea
Remove liferea configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liferea configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liferea
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liferea package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
