Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, QuiteRSS is an open-source RSS reader, written on Qt and C++. The latest version available is QuiteRSS 0.17.0, which has been released a while ago, coming with fixes and improvements:
- Added: The Newspaper view (View->Layout->Newspaper)
- Added: Socks5 proxy support
- Changed: News opening in external browser
- Fixed: Sorting by feed title in news list
In this article I will show you how to install QuiteRSS 0.17.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Deepin 2014, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2.0 and other Ubuntu derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing QuiteRSS 0.17.0 on Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivatives is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the quiterss package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:quiterss/quiterss
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install quiterss
Optional, to remove quiterss, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove quiterss