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This is just a quick personal cheat sheet: treat its contents with caution!

Miniflux¶

Miniflux is a minimalist self hosted feed (RSS) reader.

Prerequisite(s)

PostgreSQL

Reference(s)

https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux
https://miniflux.app/docs/index.html
https://alternativeto.net/software/miniflux/?license=opensource
https://suckless.org/rocks/ (see "Feed aggregators" section)

Install¶

PostgreSQL should be started at this point.

Create the Miniflux user and Miniflux database:

# su
# su postgres
$ createuser -P miniflux # enter miniflux pwd, confirm pwd & enter postgres pwd
$ createdb -O miniflux miniflux2
$ psql miniflux -c 'create extension hstore'

Enabling HSTORE extension for PostgreSQL:

# sudo -u postgres psql $MINIFLUX_DATABASE
    > CREATE EXTENSION hstore;
    > \q

Download the latest Miniflux executable and install it:

# wget https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux/releases/download/2.0.16/miniflux-linux-amd64
# mv miniflux-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/miniflux
# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/miniflux
$ vi $HOME/.bashrc # or ${ZDOTDIR:-${HOME}}/.zshenv or wherever
    > ...
  + >
  + > # MINIFLUX
  + > export DATABASE_URL="user=postgres password=postgres dbname=miniflux2 sslmode=disable"
    > ...

$ source $HOME/.bashrc # or ${ZDOTDIR:-${HOME}}/.zshenv or wherever
# miniflux -migrate # create admin user

Uninstall¶

TODO

Config¶

See https://github.com/miniflux/miniflux

Use¶

Run Miniflux:

$ miniflux

Open it in a browser at "127.0.0.1:8080"

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