[How-to] Build RSS Guard for Ubuntu/Debian based systems

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Hi.

Unfortunately, as of now, the most recent version of RSS Guard available on official Ubuntu repositories is 4.0.4. But RSS Guard recently hit 4.4.0 and there's a lot of improvements and newly added features that 4.0.4 lacks.

To my surprise, building RSS Guard wans't that much of a complicated task to do. At least not when I had all necessary dependencies installed!!

So I write the steps I took here for anyone interested.

If you have already installed RSS Guard on your system using Ubuntu's repository, remove the program by the following command. This won't remove your feeds/subscriptions. But have an export of those beforehand just in case.

sudo apt purge rssguard

And install these dependencies:

sudo apt install cmake
sudo apt install qtbase5-dev
sudo apt install qtwebengine5-dev
sudo apt install qtmultimedia5-dev
sudo apt install qttools5-dev
sudo apt install qtdeclarative5-dev

sudo apt install checkinstall # optional but recommended 

Using checkinstall is the same as using make install but it creates a dpkg entry for easier uninstallation later. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CheckInstall.

Then follow these steps to build and install:

# Pull the changes
git pull origin master --tags

# Checkout to the recent version tag
git checkout 4.4.0

# Create a build directory
mkdir build-dir

# A normal build configuration would be like
cmake -B build-dir -S . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

# Compile with all available CPU cores
cmake --build build-dir -j$(nproc)

# make
make -C build-dir
# and then install, or rather checkinstall
cd build-dir
sudo checkinstall

RSS Guard should now be installed and operational.

Please feel free to ask or add anything to this. Thank you.