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Tiny Tiny RSS 1.9 Available In PPA For Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 And 12.04

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki">Tiny Tiny RSS</a> is an open source web-based RSS reader that you can install on a server and then access it from multiple computers/devices. Since it's self-hosted, you're in control of your data and don't have to worry that the service may be discontinued, like it happened with Google Reader (and almost happened with <a href="http://blog.theoldreader.com/">The Old Reader</a>).</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/tiny-tiny-rss-1.9.png"><img alt="Tiny Tiny RSS 1.9" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm0lKmBR9wktYAgdngXZTmVxeis3yvRjfObgAvm__YHFPzjHkBYdpfT6-zX4xFiMuu_kVjrm-a8CnG6t8Ra1xK6gLmW6vfAOUzcAU-tfIf68nXEFhyphenhyphenWaVPBvjYp5_UM-aBJvntgwBzDnY/s320/tiny-tiny-rss-1.9.pn" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With a bit of a delay (sorry!), the latest <b>Tiny Tiny RSS 1.9 is now available in our PPA for Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04, backported from Ubuntu 13.10</b>. This release comes with <b>new icons, a new plugin which adds a feed for all articles shared by url, various parser bugfixes</b> and more.</div><br /><b>Tiny Tiny RSS 1.9 changes:</b><br /><ul><li>Minor bugfixes;</li><li>Various parser bugfixes;</li><li>Parser: support xml:base in atom feeds;</li><li>Parser: add support for libxml with problematic handling of character encodings (affects several NAS devices);</li><li>Fixed several bugs when migrating filters using OPML;</li><li>Minor performance improvements;</li><li>Added Korean translation;</li><li>Improved Russian translation;</li><li>Other translations updated;</li><li>Integrated Silk icons by Mark James;</li><li>Added plugin which adds a feed for all articles shared by url;</li><li>Allow unsharing and changing URLs for individual articles;</li><li>Floating title more consistent with the rest of the UI, enable floating title for expandable combined mode;</li><li>Licensed under GPL v3.</li></ul><br /><br /><h2>Install and configure Tiny Tiny RSS in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Because the installation / configuration process has quite a few steps, I won't post them here so for how to install Tiny Tiny RSS in Ubuntu, see our previous article: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/05/tiny-tiny-rss-ubuntu-ppa-google-reader.html">Tiny Tiny RSS Ubuntu PPA</a>.</div>

Tiny Tiny RSS 1.9 Available In PPA For Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 And 12.04

Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based RSS reader that you can install on a server and then access it from multiple computers/devices. S...

<div style="text-align: justify;">A while back we wrote about <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/how-to-install-tiny-tiny-rss-in-ubuntu.html">installing and configuring Tiny Tiny RSS in Ubuntu</a>, a Google Reader (which will be closing in July) alternative that you can host on your computer / server, but the version available in the Ubuntu repositories is pretty old, so I've <b>uploaded the latest Tiny Tiny RSS version to a PPA, which should make it a lot easier to install in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04</b>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y5F6fTXJS-U/UaOSDbeRH6I/AAAAAAAAPWE/DEPvDkLl1h4/s1600/tiny-tiny-rss-1.7.9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tiny Tiny RSS" border="0" height="220" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y5F6fTXJS-U/UaOSDbeRH6I/AAAAAAAAPWE/DEPvDkLl1h4/s320/tiny-tiny-rss-1.7.9.png" title="Tiny Tiny RSS" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>At the time I'm writing this article, our PPA has Tiny Tiny RSS version 1.7.9</b>, while Ubuntu 13.04 has version 1.6.2. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Since version 1.6.2, there have been many changes</b>, like interface and typography improvements, error logging, new plugin system that includes plugins such as importing starred/shared.json files from Google Reader takeout or emulate Google Reader keyboard shortcuts and others, improved feed update speed, implemented basic password recovery and many other new features, tweaks and bug fixes.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vDsSAWugGAc/UaOSV7iRbPI/AAAAAAAAPWU/5AGd7ZEv_EQ/s1600/tiny-tiny-rss-plugins.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="220" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vDsSAWugGAc/UaOSV7iRbPI/AAAAAAAAPWU/5AGd7ZEv_EQ/s320/tiny-tiny-rss-plugins.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plugins available in Tiny Tiny RSS 1.7.9</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><br /><h2>Install (and configure) the latest Tiny Tiny RSS in Ubuntu via PPA</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The PPA packages are the work of Sebastian Reichel, who is maintaining Tiny Tiny RSS for Debian. I've just tweaked the package to work with the latest Tiny Tiny RSS 1.7.9 (Debian has 1.7.8 for now) and uploaded it to the PPA.<br /><br /><b>Update: the PPA now provides Tiny Tiny RSS 1.9. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><b>1.</b> Before proceeding with the Tiny Tiny RSS installation, let's install MySQL and Apache:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client apache2 libapache2-mod-php5</code></pre><br /><b>2. To add our Tiny Tiny RSS PPA and install the latest TT-RSS in Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 or 12.04, use the following commands in a terminal:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/tt-rss<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install tt-rss</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>If you're upgrading from an older Tiny Tiny RSS version</b> (I've tested it with Tiny Tiny RSS 1.6.2 from the Ubuntu repositories and then upgraded to the latest 1.7.9), <b>you'll be prompted to select some options:</b></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">you'll need enter the full URL of you tt-rss installation (for instance "<i>http://localhost/tt-rss/</i>" for a local install);</li><li style="text-align: justify;">replace the configuration file: select to replace the original configuration file or else you'll get some errors (when you reach see "<i>config.php (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N]</i>" in the terminal, type "Y" (without the quotes), then press Enter);</li><li>perform upgrade on database for tt-rss : select "yes".</li></ul><br /><b>If this is a fresh installation, you'll be prompted to:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">choose the database type: select MySQL;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">choose the web server - select Apache2;</li><li style="text-align: justify;">you'll need enter the full URL of you tt-rss installation (for instance "<i>http://localhost/tt-rss/</i>" for a local install).</li></ul><br />If later on you want to reconfigure tt-rss, you can run the following command:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo dpkg-reconfigure tt-rss</code></pre><br /><b>3.</b> This shouldn't be required anymore since TT-RSS should do this automatically but just in case, run the following commands:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo ln -s ../conf-available/50-tt-rss.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/<br />sudo service apache2 restart</code></pre>(if the first one fails, don't worry, it just means the symbolic link was already created by Tiny Tiny RSS).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>4.</b> The next step is to enter your server address under <i>/etc/tt-rss/config.php</i> so open that file with a text editor as root - I'll use nano for the command below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo nano /etc/tt-rss/config.php</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">and in this file, scroll down to "<i>define('SELF_URL_PATH', 'http://example.org/tt-rss/');</i>" and replace "<i>yourserver</i>" with your server address, or use "<i>localhost</i>" if you only plan on using it locally. Then save the file and exit (to save and exit in Nano text editor, press: CTRL + o, ENTER then CTRL + x).</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update:</b> this step doesn't seem to be required any more since the initial config now writes the correct address in this file, but I'll leave it here just in case.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>5. </b>To get Tiny Tiny RSS to update the feeds, you need to edit the <i>/etc/default/tt-rss</i> file as root with a text editor - I'll use nano command line text editor in the command below:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo nano /etc/default/tt-rss</code></pre></div><div style="text-align: justify;">and in this file, change "DISABLED" from "1" to "0", then save the file and exit (to save an exit in Nano, press CTRL + o, ENTER then CTRL + x).</div><br />And finally, start the Tiny Tiny RSS service:<br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo service tt-rss start</code></pre><div style="text-align: justify;">You only need to run this command once, the tt-rss daemon should start automatically on each system startup.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>6.</b> Now navigate to your server address (which you've set up under step 3 - e.g.: <i>http://localhost/tt-rss/</i>) and use the following to log in:</div><ul><li>username: <b>admin</b></li><li>password: <b>password</b></li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Then, change the password (!) and start importing your Google Reader feeds or add some feeds manually.</div>

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