Installing Laminar on EndeavourOS Latest

Laminar is an open-source feed aggregator with minimal dependencies, written in Python. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Laminar on EndeavourOS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before we start, ensure that you have the following:

  • A running EndeavourOS Latest instance.
  • Access to a terminal with sudo privileges.
  • Python 3.7 or newer installed on your system.

Step 1: Install dependencies

Laminar requires a few dependencies to be installed on your system. Let's start by installing them:

sudo pacman -S python-feedparser python-artifacts

Step 2: Install Laminar

  1. Download Laminar's source code from GitHub:

    git clone https://github.com/thcipriani/laminar.git

  2. Navigate to the Laminar directory:

    cd laminar

  3. Install Laminar:

    sudo python setup.py install

Step 3: Configure Laminar

  1. Create a configuration file for Laminar:

    sudo cp laminar_config.yml.example /etc/laminar_config.yml

  2. Open the configuration file in your preferred text editor:

    sudo nano /etc/laminar_config.yml

  3. Edit the configuration file as needed. Here's an example configuration:

    title: My Laminar instance
feeds:
  - url: https://www.example.com/feed.xml
    update_interval: 10m
    artifacts_dir: /var/lib/laminar_artifacts/example
browser_command: xdg-open
output_dir: /var/www/html/laminar

  4. Save and close the configuration file.

Step 4: Start Laminar

You can start Laminar using the following command:

sudo systemctl start laminar.service

To ensure that Laminar starts automatically at boot time, run the following command:

sudo systemctl enable laminar.service

Step 5: Access Laminar

Laminar will create an Atom feed file in the output_dir specified in the configuration file. You can access this file by navigating to the URL:

http://<your server's IP address>/laminar/atom.xml

If you specified a different output_dir in the configuration file, adjust the URL accordingly.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have successfully installed and configured Laminar on EndeavourOS Latest. You can now use Laminar to aggregate and subscribe to RSS feeds.