How do I setup „Planet Venus” under Debian or Ubuntu Linux to downloads news feeds (RSS) published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed?

How do I setup „Planet Venus” under Debian or Ubuntu Linux to downloads news feeds (RSS) published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed?
From the project home page:

Planet is a flexible feed aggregator. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first. It uses Mark Pilgrim’s Universal Feed Parser to read from CDF, RDF, RSS and Atom feeds; Leonard Richardson’s Beautiful Soup to correct markup issues; and either Tomas Styblo’s templating engine or Daniel Viellard’s implementation of XSLT to output static files in any format you can dream up.

You can use this tool to combine two or more feeds easily i.e. this software act as a „Feed Aggregator”.

Installation

Type the following apt-get command:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
$ sudo apt-get install planet-venus
Sample outputs:

 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed:   python-html5lib python-htmltmpl python-libxslt1 Suggested packages:   python-django python-genshi python-lxml The following NEW packages will be installed:   planet-venus python-html5lib python-htmltmpl python-libxslt1 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/583 kB of archives. After this operation, 2,904 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Selecting previously deselected package python-html5lib. (Reading database ... 281588 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking python-html5lib (from .../python-html5lib_0.90-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package python-htmltmpl. Unpacking python-htmltmpl (from .../python-htmltmpl_1.22-10_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package python-libxslt1. Unpacking python-libxslt1 (from .../python-libxslt1_1.1.26-6+squeeze2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package planet-venus. Unpacking planet-venus (from .../planet-venus_0~bzr116-1_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up python-html5lib (0.90-1) ... Setting up python-htmltmpl (1.22-10) ... Setting up python-libxslt1 (1.1.26-6+squeeze2) ... Setting up planet-venus (0~bzr116-1) ... Processing triggers for python-support ...

How do I use planet venus?

Type the following command to create a default planet for planet.cyberciti.biz in /home/apache/domains/planet.cyberciti.biz/http:
$ mkdir -p /home/apache/domains/planet.cyberciti.biz/http
$ cd /home/apache/domains/planet.cyberciti.biz/http
$ planet --create linuxnews
To edit this default planet called linuxnews, enter:
$ cd linuxnews
$ vi planet.ini
Sample outputs:

 # Global configuration [Planet]   name            = nixCraft Linux News Planet  link            = http://planet.cyberciti.biz/ owner_name      = nixCraft owner_email     = webmaster@server1.cyberciti.biz output_theme    = theme cache_directory = cache output_dir      = output feed_timeout    = 20 items_per_page  = 60 log_level       = DEBUG   # RSS/Feed subscription configuration # [Feed-RSS-URL] # name = Web Site Name Here   [http://feeds.cyberciti.biz/Nixcraft-LinuxFreebsdSolarisTipsTricks] name = nixCraft: Linux Tips, Hacks, Tutorials, And Ideas In Blog Format   [http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotLinux] name = Linux Stories From Slashdot   [http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxtoday/linux] name = Linux Today   [http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/.rss] name = Reddit /r/Linux  

Save and close the file.

Build default planet right away

Type the following command:
$ planet --verbose planet.ini
Sample outputs:

 INFO:planet.runner:Socket timeout set to 20 seconds INFO:planet.runner:Building work queue INFO:planet.runner:Updating feed http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotLinux INFO:planet.runner:Updating feed http://feeds.cyberciti.biz/Nixcraft-LinuxFreebsdSolarisTipsTricks INFO:planet.runner:Updating feed http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/.rss INFO:planet.runner:Updating feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/linuxtoday/linux INFO:planet.runner:Loading cached data

Test the results in your favorite web-browser:
http://planet.cyberciti.biz/linuxnews/output/atom.html
OR
http://localhost/linuxnews/output/index.html
Test the RSS result in your favorite rss reader:
http://planet.cyberciti.biz/linuxnews/output/atom.html
OR
http://localhost/linuxnews/output/atom.html
Sample outputs:

Fig.01. HTML output Fig.01. HTML output
 
 
Fig.02: Atom.xml in rss reader Fig.02: Atom.xml in rss reader

Planet venus project home page.

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