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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: anonuk on November 01, 2004, 05:47:18 pm
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I discovered today that the NewsFeed RSS reader (written in python, tcl, tk) works nicely on pdaXrom with dillo, thought some other people might find this useful.
Get the newsfeed program from http://thor.prohosting.com/~mdoege/newsfeed/ (http://thor.prohosting.com/~mdoege/newsfeed/) i used the latest version (1.8).
It also needs tcl, tk, python, python-crypto and possibly some other python libs from the pdaxrom feed. Apart from that, just decompress the tar.gz file and then run ./newsfeed
If you want to open links in dillo, just type export BROWSER=dillo at the shell prompt before running newsfeed and it should work like a dream.
Its not the best program for reading RSS feeds but i havent found another one that runs easily on pdaxrom (that isnt console based). Not sure how one would ipk it, maybe someone can do that and put it on the unstable feed? Hope this helps someone anyways...
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Some other options might be thunderbird 0.8 which handles rss feeds as mailboxes,
there are also some plugins for firefox-mozilla.
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I tried newsfeed but i always get an error in line 19 in newsfeed.py because there is no module named webbrowser. So which pyhon libs are required?
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the only ones i installed afaik are python-crypto and also the python package (which is the base package i guess) i got the webbrowser error but i think that dissapeared when i installed the python package.