How To Install rss-bridge on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rss-bridge on Kali Linux.
What is rss-bridge
rss-bridge is:
Provides a PHP web service which generates ATOM feeds for facebook, twitter, youtube, flickr, google, instagram, pinterest and more than 130 other web services which do not provide ATOM or RSS feeds themselves. The software acts as a proxy between the web service and an RSS reader software. It scrapes their publicly available HTML pages to extract the necessary information. To prevent banning, the results are cached.
There are three methods to install rss-bridge on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rss-bridge Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install rss-bridge using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rss-bridgeInstall rss-bridge Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install rss-bridge using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rss-bridgeInstall rss-bridge Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install rss-bridge using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rss-bridgeHow To Uninstall rss-bridge on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the rss-bridge package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rss-bridgeUninstall rss-bridge And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rss-bridge and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rss-bridgeRemove rss-bridge Configurations and Data
To remove rss-bridge configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rss-bridgeRemove rss-bridge configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rss-bridge configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rss-bridgeDependencies
rss-bridge have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rss-bridge package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.