{"id":7575,"date":"2018-03-08T07:24:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T07:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7575"},"modified":"2018-03-08T07:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T07:24:43","slug":"liferea-1-12-2-released-plugin-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/liferea-1-12-2-released-plugin-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"Liferea Feed Reader 1.12.2 Released with Plugin Installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/liferea-icon245.png\" alt=\"Liferea Feed Reader\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new bug-fix release for Liferea 1.12 was released earlier today. A plugin installer plugin was introduced that allows easy discovery and installation of 3rd party plugins.<\/p>\n<p>Full changes in <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/lwindolf\/liferea\/releases\" target=\"_blank\">Liferea 1.12.2<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adding a plugin installer plugin that allows discovering and automatically installing 3rd party plugins<\/li>\n<li>Drop language from user agent to increase privacy<\/li>\n<li>Add transmission-gtk and aria2 as download tool options<\/li>\n<li>New command line option <code>--disable-plugins<\/code> (-p) to start with all plugins disabled.<\/li>\n<li>Fix that Liferea not showing up in GNOME Software<\/li>\n<li>Correctly print error message when failing to unlock GNOME keyring<\/li>\n<li>Fix that CSS style for GTK link colors not used<\/li>\n<li>Redirect location updates and adds HTTP 308 (RFC 7538) support<\/li>\n<li>Fix unable to set unread items in bold<\/li>\n<li>Fix broken OPML feed list entries<\/li>\n<li>Add Norwegian feed list<\/li>\n<li>Translation updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/liferea112-2-600x359.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"359\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/liferea112-2-600x359.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/liferea112-2-450x269.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/liferea112-2-768x459.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/liferea112-2.jpg 911w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Liferea 1.12.2 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, Ubuntu 18.04, and derivatives, the new release is available in a third-party PPA repository.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from app launcher. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it asks and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mupdf-unofficial-ppa-600x76.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"76\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mupdf-unofficial-ppa-600x76.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mupdf-unofficial-ppa-450x57.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/mupdf-unofficial-ppa.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade Liferea via Software Updater utility:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-liferea-450x328.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade Liferea via Software Updater\" width=\"450\" height=\"328\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-liferea-450x328.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-liferea-600x438.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/upgrade-liferea.jpg 823w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run commands one by one to install the Linux feed reader:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install liferea<\/pre>\n<p>Finally launch the news reader from your application launcher and enjoy! (Log out and log back if you don&#8217;t see the icon).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/launch-liferea-450x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/launch-liferea-450x225.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/launch-liferea.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall Liferea:<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the software, either use your system package manager or run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove liferea<\/pre>\n<p>To remove the PPA repository, open &#8220;Software &#038; Updates&#8221; utility and navigate to Other Software tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new bug-fix release for Liferea 1.12 was released earlier today. A plugin installer plugin was introduced that allows easy discovery and installation of 3rd party plugins. Full changes in Liferea 1.12.2 include: Adding a plugin installer plugin that allows discovering and automatically installing 3rd party plugins Drop language from user agent to increase privacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[45,991],"class_list":["post-7575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-feed-reader","tag-liferea"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}