How To Install rss-bridge on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install rss-bridge on Kali Linux. rss-bridge is web service generating ATOM feeds for websites that dont have them

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 update

After updating apt database, We can install rss-bridge using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install rss-bridge

Install rss-bridge Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install rss-bridge using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install rss-bridge

Install 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install rss-bridge using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rss-bridge

How 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-bridge

Uninstall 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-bridge

Remove 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-bridge

Remove 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-bridge

Dependencies

rss-bridge have the following dependencies:

References

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.