A: The easiest way is to download the source package from
the SourceForge project page.
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 feed cache is saved in a binary database file.
This list may not be complete!
Q: Enclosures download with Gwget doesn't work
A: Most likely you have Gwget 1.0.0 or 1.0.1 installed, and
due to a temporary breakage in the dbus API of Gwget these versions
don't work with Liferea. Both older and more recent versions of Gwget
do work.
Q: I'm using Firefox/Seamonkey, and when opening items in the browser the focus goes to the browser.
A: That's done by your browser. For changing it, open about:config in your browser and set browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground to true.
Q: Liferea is buggy! It does not close when I click on the window
managers close button and the tray icon is activated.
A:
This is a pretty disputed topic. We see this as a useful feature, other
people don't. If you don't like the behaviour you can change it in the
preferences under "GUI". There you can enable the check box "Terminate
instead of minimizing to tray icon".
Q: I want cookies!
A:
Liferea supports cookies provided by a text file ~/.liferea_1.6/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 stylesheet. Just place a liferea.css into ~/.liferea_1.6/.
During startup it 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 do I see my LiveJournal friend's friends-only entries?
A: This is usually due to a bad feed which associated a
particular ID to multiple items. If you are experienced with syndication
formats please check the feed source code. If you find problems please
contact the author/webmaster of the feed. If not 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
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: If you miss a feature in Liferea please consider contributing
code to implement the feature! Please also consider that the Liferea
project aims to provide a simple feed reader that might lack more
complex functionality.