If you are a geek or sucker for the Linux command line, you probably prefer doing everything on your terminal including printing, programming and even checking cryptocurrency values using coinmon tool.  Now, you can even keep in touch with the latest that’s happening around the world!  Sounds cool, doesn’t it? In this article, we are going to show you how to install newsroom, a fancy CLI tool used to help you get the latest news on your terminal.

Newsroom is a free and open source command-line utility you can use to get your popular news in Linux. It’s developed on NodeJS platform and runs both on Linux and Mac OS platforms as well.

Newsroom derives its sources from the following platforms:

• hackernews
• techcrunch
• inside
• bnext
• ithome
• wanqu
• nodeweekly
• codetengu
• gankio

As a prerequisite, you’ll need to install npm which is the default package manager for NodeJS. Let’s see how we can install NodeJs and NPM on Linux.

Installation of NodeJS on Ubuntu

NodeJS is a lightweight Javascript platform that helps developers leverage on Javascript and develop stable front end and back end applications.
First, we need to update the local packages first by running the command below

apt-get update

Thereafter install npm using the command below

apt-get install npm

To install nodejs , run

apt-get install nodejs

To check the version of nodejs run

nodejs -v

Output

v4.2.6

To install newsroom, run the command below

npm install -g newsroom-cli

Sample Output

loadDep:update-notifier → ▌ ╢██████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░╟
WARN engine inquirer@4.0.2: wanted: {"node":">=6.0.0"} (current: {"node":"4.2.6"loadDep:uuid → mapToRegis ▀ ╢████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░╟
WARN engine hawk@6.0.2: wanted: {"node":">=4.5.0"} (current: {"node":"4.2.6","np/usr/local/bin/newsroom -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/newsroom-cli/bin/cli.js
/usr/local/bin/nr -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/newsroom-cli/bin/cli.js
/usr/local/lib
└─┬ newsroom-cli@0.1.10
  ├─┬ babel-runtime@6.26.0
  │ ├── core-js@2.5.4
  │ └── regenerator-runtime@0.11.1
  ├─┬ chalk@2.3.2
  │ ├─┬ ansi-styles@3.2.1
  │ │ └─┬ color-convert@1.9.1
  │ │   └── color-name@1.1.3
  │ ├── escape-string-regexp@1.0.5
  │ └─┬ supports-color@5.3.0
  │   └── has-flag@3.0.0
  ├─┬ cheerio@1.0.0-rc.2
  │ ├─┬ css-select@1.2.0
  │ │ ├── boolbase@1.0.0
  │ │ ├── css-what@2.1.0
  │ │ ├── domutils@1.5.1
  │ │ └── nth-check@1.0.1
  │ ├─┬ dom-serializer@0.1.0
  │ │ └── domelementtype@1.1.3
  │ ├── entities@1.1.1
  │ ├─┬ htmlparser2@3.9.2
  │ │ ├── domelementtype@1.3.0
  │ │ ├── domhandler@2.4.1
  │ │ ├── inherits@2.0.3
  │ │ └─┬ readable-stream@2.3.5
  │ │   ├── core-util-is@1.0.2
  │ │   ├── isarray@1.0.0
  │ │   ├── process-nextick-args@2.0.0
  │ │   ├── string_decoder@1.0.3
  │ │   └── util-deprecate@1.0.2

To run newsroom type newsroom command as shown

newsroom

You’ll be presented with a list of news sources to choose from

Make use of the up and down cursor keys to navigate between the news sources. In the above example, ‘hackernews’ has been selected.

In the list that appears, use the spacebar to select the item you prefer. The selected item will be highlighted by a green bullet. Press ‘Enter’ to open it in a web browser.

Then press ‘Enter’ to read in in a browser.

Conclusion

Your thoughts on the project are welcome. Give it a try and tell us what you think. Thank you fo your time.