How To Install liferea on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install liferea on Debian 9. liferea is feed/news/podcast client with plugin support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liferea on Debian 9.

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 Debian 9. 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 Debian. 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 Debian 9

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 Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liferea

Remove liferea Configurations and Data

To remove liferea configuration and data from Debian 9 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

Dependencies

liferea have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liferea package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.