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 0.17.1, which has been released a while ago, coming with fixes and improvements:
- Added: Button and shortcut to switch layout
- Added: Ability to delete news in newspaper layout
- Added: News list search: “Find in links”
- Added: Ability to choose monitor to display notifications
- Added: Notification transparency option
- Added: Notification text and background colors options
- Added: Notification option “Show when main window is inactive”
- Added: Additional options for notification layout
- Added: Scroll by page shortcuts in embedded browser
- Changed: Retain search text while switching feed
- Changed: Show deleted news number after clean up wizard
- Changed: Multi-select behavior in news list
- Fixed: Host-name absence in some feed links
- Fixed: Inactive filters with “Link” field and “is” condition
- Fixed: Update of the feeds which last update date is 1970
- Fixed: Occasional error of restoring feed list columns length
In this article I will show you how to install QuiteRSS 0.17.1 on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, 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 0.17.1 on Ubuntu 14.10, 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
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