Please read http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki/InstallationNotes Once you have configured TT-RSS, put the path to this instance into the INSTANCE_DIRS variable in /etc/conf.d/ttrssd. Make sure that the ttrssd user can access the path, and then start the update daemon with /etc/init.d/ttrssd start to get your feeds updated. Add the daemon to your default runlevel, so that it gets launched after a system restart: rc-update add ttrssd default With the update to 1.7.0 the 'magpie' RSS parser has been removed. That means TT-RSS will use the 'simplepie' parser. If you have been using 'magpie' so far, the switch might cause lots of duplicate articles - it's a one-time thing for each instance.