How To Install rss-bridge on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rss-bridge on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install 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 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 rss-bridge using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rss-bridge
How To Uninstall rss-bridge on Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, 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 Ubuntu 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rss-bridge package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
