A: The easiest way is to download the source package or one of the
available binary packages from the SourceForge project homepage.
But you should also consider checking if your Linux distribution
provides an own package for Liferea. A list of all known prebuilt
packages is provided in the installation section.
Q: Security and Liferea
A:
Liferea might be quite functional but is not the best choice
when you consider security to be very important. There are
some points you should know:
When using feed or proxy authentication usernames and
passwords are saved plain text in ~/.liferea/feedlist.opml.
File Permissions: 0600.
The ~/.liferea directory depending on the users umask
can be readable for everyone. This is useful to allow other
programs access to the new_subscription pipe.
The cache directory with the feed contents is user
readable only. Contents are stored as plain text in XML.
The Mozilla profile used by Liferea is created once
according to the users umask setting. This is true for
other temporary files too.
The Mozilla profile is created on first startup and
is a practically unconfigured Mozilla profile! This can be
a significant security problem (Javascript, Software Installation,
Plugins...). A workaround for this is to replace it with a profile
from a securily configured Mozilla installation.
This list may not be complete!
Q: When using the Mozilla HTML rendering widget the focus
is always moved to the HTML widget. This is really disturbing!
A:
First this is a Mozilla behaviour and no Liferea bug. If you
want to get this fixed please vote on these Mozilla bugs:
#210373 and #226708.
Q: Liferea is buggy! It does not close when I click on the window
managers close button and the tray icon is activated.
A:
We see this as a useful feature and not as a bug. The idea is that
the GUI consists of two interfaces both serving different usage
modes of the program. Requesting a close for one these interfaces
does not mean the whole thing - the program - is terminated. Closing
the window means "closing the window" for Liferea. It does not mean
"ending the application".
There are several other applications following the same approach:
MS Outlook, licq, akregator, gaim, mail notification...
If you really don't like this behaviour please disable the
tray icon.
Q: I want cookies!
A:
Liferea supports cookies provided by a text file ~/.liferea/cookies.txt
which contains cookies in Netscape format. The easiest way is to copy
the file from your Mozilla profile after you created the cookies
with the browser.
Q: I don't like the HTML styles Liferea uses!
A: You can have your own stylesheets. Just place a liferea.css (for the
two pane view) or a liferea2.css (for the three pane view) into ~/.liferea.
These will be loaded additionally to the default stylesheets so you can
modify some or all style definitions. To learn about the styles have a
look at the default stylesheets in <install root>/share/liferea/css.
Q: How can I subscribe to Gmails inbox feed?
A: Google provides a Atom feed with a list of all new messages under https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom. Because this feed is accessed via HTTPS is not directly supported by Liferea. You need an external download tool (e.g. curl or wget) to subscribe to this feed. To do so open the new subscription dialog select command as source type and enter the following command as feed source:
Substitute username and password with your Gmail login information.
Q: I really need to subscribe to HTTPS feeds! But Liferea doesn't support this.
A: Liferea does not support HTTPS. Currently there are no plans to do so.
This won't change as there are almost no feeds using HTTPS out there. But
if you really need to there is a simple trick to do so. Open the new
subscription dialog and select the source type "command". Don't enter
a source but enable the "Use conversion filter" option and enter
"curl <your-HTTPS-URL>" as conversion command. Obviously to make
this work you need curl or any other program which supports downloads
with output to stdout. This hint was contributed by Norbert Kiesel.
Q: The Mozilla browser module doesn't work for me!
A: Please check:
You need the full Mozilla suite to run the Mozilla module. Firefox doesn't work for that purpose. Note that you can have both installed, browse the web with Firefox and use Mozilla just as Liferea's module
If you have any Mozilla installation containing libgtkembedmoz.so. It won't work without this library.
The debug output of Liferea (try running with --debug-all) for Mozilla related errors. If you get libgtkembedmoz.so: cannot open shared object file the library simply cannot be found. So you need to set MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to the installation path of Liferea. If for example Mozilla was installed in /usr/local/mozilla-1.7 and you use bash you should add export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/mozilla-1.7 to your .profile.
If your Liferea installation was compiled with Mozilla support. In case you did compile yourself you can check this in the summary output of configure. Note that some distributions like Debian split the Liferea package into several parts. To use Liferea with Mozilla on a Debian installation you need the packages liferea and liferea-mozilla
If none of the above could solve your problems. Please try to use Liferea with another Mozilla installation. Between some Mozilla versions there are symbol incompatibilities. As a last resort you can fallback to GtkHTML2. If you have crashes or other problems please contacts us at the mailing list.
Q: How do I see my LiveJournal friend's friends-only entries?
Q: What is the difference between a folder and a directory?
A: Folders are used to group feeds in a feedlist. Directories are
lists of feeds that are added to your feedlist and are treated very
similar to how feeds are treated. Directories are stored in OCS or
OPML format.
Q: Why do feed items keep being displayed as new?
A: This is usually due to a bad feed which associated a
particular ID to multiple items. You should check your feed against a
feed validator such as
feedvalidator.org. If the validator does not report any
error, please submit a bug report including the URL of the problem
feed to the Liferea
bugtracker.
Note: If you experience this problem with a planet feed the reason
might be that the planet feed does not provide unique item ids
for one or all off its source feeds. If this is the case Liferea
has no chance to match identical items.
Q: Liferea crashes too much.
A: We hear this complaint a lot, but we rarely do not get information
on how it crashed. If you find a way to make Liferea crash, we would
love to know about it. Please send us a copy of the output of running
Liferea with the "--debug-all" flag, plus a backtrace if possible. To
create a backtrace, open up a terminal and type two commands: ulimit -c unlimited and then liferea. This causes Liferea to create a core dump
when it crashes. Then, run gdb liferea-bin
core and type bt at the gdb
prompt. This will display the backtrace of the crash, which should be
sent along with the bug report.
Q: Why doesn't Liferea have feature X?
A: Please submit a feature request to our
RFE tracker!