Installing newsbeuter on a headless server

Today we'll see how to install Newsbeuter on a headless linux server (CentOS or Fedora), since it's a very good tool for reading RSS streams.

1. Prerequisites (yum)
   First we need to install some system packages :
   yum install -y pkgconfig-devel curl-devel libcurl sqlite-devel.x86_64 libxml2 libxml2-devel
   If available through yum, install ncurses5 otherwise we'll install it later
   yum install -y ncurses5
2. Prerequisites (manual)
   Here we will install each package one by one, through the old 'make' method with root user
   
# cd /usr/local/
# wget http://www.clifford.at/stfl/stfl-0.22.tar.gz
# cp /tmp/stfl-0.22.tar .
# tar xf stfl-0.22.tar
# cd stfl-0.22
# time make
# time make install

   # cd /usr/local/
# wget http://oss.metaparadigm.com/json-c/json-c-0.9.tar.gz
# gunzip json-c-0.9.tar.gz
# tar xf json-c-0.9.tar
# cd json-c-0.9
# time ./configure
# time make
# time make install

   # echo '/usr/local/lib' >> /etc/ld.so.conf.d/usr-local.conf

   # cd /usr/local
# wget ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
# gunzip ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
# tar xf ncurses-5.9.tar
# cd ncurses-5.9
# time ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
# time make
# time make install
# cd /usr/local/bin/
# ln -s ncurses5-config ncursesw5-config

   # ldconfig

3. Newsbeuter install
   Here you can choose to install with root or your own user.
   $ cd $HOME
$ mkdir -pv base_newsbeuter
$ cd base_newsbeuter
$ wget http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/newsbeuter-2.7.tar.gz
$ tar zxf newsbeuter-2.7.tar.gz

   $ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/
$ time make
$ time make install DESTDIR=$HOME/base_newsbeuter/newsbeuter-2.7_depl

4. Test
   Just try running newsbeuter from its bin directory..