HOW TO INSTALL QUITERSS FREE RSS FEED READER IN UBUNU 16.04 – A BEST RSS READER FOR LINUX

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Quiterss free rss feed reader in Ubuntu 16.04. Quiterss is a open source best rss reader package for Linux operating system. Quiterss was developed by Shilyaev Egor and Aleksey Khokhryakov on year 2012 using Qt programming language and released under GNU GPLv3 License. The main function of this application is you will get all latest RSS & Atom news feeds on real time.

Now let’s have a look at features of Quiterss best rss reader app :

• It’s an cross platform application available for major operating systems i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS.
• You can configure proxy settings in Quiterss free rss feed reader so that it can work on Proxy based internet environment.
• You will get Popup and Sound notification’s for all new RSS feeds.
• Use Adblock feature if you don’t want to see the Advertisements.
• You can open multiple news feeds at a time using tabs.
• Quiterss best rss reader supports multiple languages.

For more informations and features of quiterss free rss feed reader you can visit the official website.

Follow the below steps to install Quiterss free rss feed reader in Ubuntu 16.04 – A Best RSS reader for Linux

Before we start the installation of Quiterss free rss feed reader let’s update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                       
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

After updating the packages & repositories now we are ready to install the Quiterss best rss reader package. So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install quiterss  # Install the Quiterss Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  quiterss
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 461 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,277 kB of archives.
After this operation, 5,321 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 quiterss amd64 0.18.3+dfsg-1 [1,277 kB]
Fetched 1,277 kB in 3s (357 kB/s)   
Selecting previously unselected package quiterss.
(Reading database ... 174198 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../quiterss_0.18.3+dfsg-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking quiterss (0.18.3+dfsg-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up quiterss (0.18.3+dfsg-1) ...

As you can see above we have successfully installed the Quiterss free rss feed reader package. Now to confirm the same use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l quiterss  # Confirm the Installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  quiterss                             0.18.3+dfsg-1           amd64                   RSS/Atom news feeds reader

Now to open the application just type the command quiterss on shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ quiterss  # Open the Quiterss Application

You can also open the Quiterss best rss reader application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the Quiterss best rss reader package use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r quiterss  # Uninstall Quiterss app
(Reading database ... 174257 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing quiterss (0.18.3+dfsg-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

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