Bug#884594: default configuration file location not recognised
(Accidentally replied only to the submitter - also sending this to the bug tracker for the record) On 18/12, g l wrote: > > Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 at 9:02 AM > > From: "Nikos Tsipinakis" > > > > I'm not sure what this is about. > > > > > Error: no URLs configured. Please fill the file > > > .../.config/newsbeuter/urls with RSS feed URLs or import an OPML file. > > > > As the error message says, you either need to add feed urls to > > ~/.config/newsbeuter/urls or import an opml file with newsbeuter -i . > > > > This debian system compilation instruction is different from the newsbeuter > manual which states that the default directory is ~/.newsbeuter/ _not_ > ~/.config/newsbeuter. Newsbeuter first checks if ~/.config/newsbeuter and ~/.local/share/newsbeuter exists and if so it uses these directories, if not it falls back to ~/.newsbeuter. Please make sure that the XDG directories don't already exist.
Bug#884594: default configuration file location not recognised
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 at 9:02 AM > From: "Nikos Tsipinakis" > > I'm not sure what this is about. > > > Error: no URLs configured. Please fill the file .../.config/newsbeuter/urls > > with RSS feed URLs or import an OPML file. > > As the error message says, you either need to add feed urls to > ~/.config/newsbeuter/urls or import an opml file with newsbeuter -i . > This debian system compilation instruction is different from the newsbeuter manual which states that the default directory is ~/.newsbeuter/ _not_ ~/.config/newsbeuter.
Bug#884594: default configuration file location not recognised
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi, I'm not sure what this is about. > Error: no URLs configured. Please fill the file .../.config/newsbeuter/urls > with RSS feed URLs or import an OPML file. As the error message says, you either need to add feed urls to ~/.config/newsbeuter/urls or import an opml file with newsbeuter -i .
Bug#884594: default configuration file location not recognised
package: newsbeuter version: 2.8 Starting newsbeuter 2.8... Loading configuration...done. Opening cache...done. Loading URLs from .../.config/newsbeuter/urls...done. Error: no URLs configured. Please fill the file .../.config/newsbeuter/urls with RSS feed URLs or import an OPML file. man newsbeuter ... FIRST STEPS After you’ve installed newsbeuter, you can run it for the first time by typing "newsbeuter" on your command prompt. This will bring you the following message: Error: no URLs configured. Please fill the file /home/ak/.newsbeuter/urls with RSS feed URLs or import an OPML file. ... ... Several aspects of newsbeuter’s behaviour can be configured via a configuration file, by default $HOME/.newsbeuter/config. ...