---
name: "liferea-bin"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "liferea"
version: "1.4.18-1.1"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/liferea-bin"
---

# liferea-bin(1)

RSS/RDF and Atom news aggregator

## NAME

Liferea - RSS/RDF and Atom news aggregator

## SYNOPSIS

**liferea** \[*OPTIONS*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**Liferea** (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF and Atom news aggregator which also supports CDF channels, OCS, and OPML directories. It's intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse and search through their items, and displays their contents using GtkHTML or Mozilla.

## OPTIONS

Liferea options:

- **--version**

  output version information and exit

- **--help**

  display a option overview and exit

- **--mainwindow-state=*STATE***

  Start Liferea with its mainwindow in STATE: shown, iconified, hidden

- **--debug-all**

  Print debugging messages of all types

- **--debug-cache**

  Print debugging messages for the cache handling

- **--debug-conf**

  Print debugging messages of the configuration handling

- **--debug-db**

  Print debugging messages of the database handling

- **--debug-gui**

  Print debugging messages of all GUI functions

- **--debug-html**

  Enables HTML rendering debugging. Each time Liferea renders HTML output it will also dump the generated HTML into ~/.liferea\_1.1/output.xhtml.

- **--debug-net**

  Print debugging messages of all network activity

- **--debug-parsing**

  Print debugging messages of all parsing functions

- **--debug-plugins**

  Print debugging messages for the plugin loading

- **--debug-trace**

  Print debugging messages when entering/leaving functions

- **--debug-update**

  Print debugging messages of the feed update processing

- **--debug-verbose**

  Print verbose debugging messages

## DBUS INTERFACE

To allow integration with other programs **Liferea** provides a DBUS interface for automatic creation of new subscriptions. The script **liferea-add-feed** is a convenient way to use this interface. Just pass a valid feed URL as parameter and the feed will be added to the feed list. You can also pass non-feed URLs to use feed auto discovery. Example:

liferea-add-feed "http://www.newsforge.com/newsforge.rss"

Please note that Liferea needs to be running for **liferea-add-feed** to work.

## ENVIRONMENT

- **http\_proxy**

  If a proxy is not specified in the Liferea preferences (which uses the proxy settings in gconf), then Liferea will use the proxy specified in $http\_proxy. $http\_proxy should be set to a URI specifying the desired proxy, for example ‘http://proxy.example.com:3128/’.

## FILES

- /usr/lib/liferea/

  Contains Liferea plugins

- /usr/share/liferea/css/

  Contains stylesheets for feed display

- /usr/share/liferea/opml/

  Contains default feedlists

- \~/.liferea\_1.4/

  Contains user feedlist and feed cache

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Lars Lindner \<lars.lindner@gmail.com\>.