README for newsbeuter
=====================
Andreas Krennmair <ak@newsbeuter.org>

Introduction
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Newsbeuter is an RSS feed reader for the text console. It is designed to run
Unix-like operating systems such as Linux. NetBSD is currently not supported,
due to technical limitations.

Downloading
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You can download the latest version of newsbeuter from the following website:
http://www.newsbeuter.org/

Alternatively, you can check out the latest version from the newsbeuter
Git repository (hosted on GitHub):

	git clone git://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter.git

Dependencies
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Newsbeuter depends on a number of libraries, which need to be installed before
newsbeuter can be compiled.

- STFL (version 0.21 or newer): http://www.clifford.at/stfl/
- SQLite3 (version 3.5 or newer): http://www.sqlite.org/download.html
- libcurl (version 7.18.0 or newer): http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
- GNU gettext (on systems that don't provide gettext in the libc): ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/
- pkg-config: http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/
- libxml2: http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
- json-c: http://oss.metaparadigm.com/json-c/

Debian unstable comes with ready-to-use packages for these dependencies.

Installation
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Compiling and installing newsbeuter is as simple as:

	make
	make install

Contact
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Andreas Krennmair <ak@newsbeuter.org>

License
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Newsbeuter is licensed under the MIT/X Consortium License. See the file LICENSE
for further details.