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Installing Gwibber in Ubuntu Hardy

Submitted by threethirty on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 01:57.
Article Type: 
Tutorial

Hello Ladies and Gents and everyone else. This is threethirty from the LinuxCranks Podcast (http://linuxcranks.info) and I'd like to tell you all how to install Gwibber in Ubuntu Hardy:

Step 0:

Install simplejson

the easy way is to go here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/i386/python-simplejson/download choose a mirror and let it open in Gdebi

Step 1:
Install baazaar

$ sudo apt-get (or aptitude) bzr

Step 2:
Checkout the baazaar repo

$ bzr checkout https://code.launchpad.net/~segphault/gwibber/main

Step 3:
Change to the gwibber directory

$ cd gwibber/

Step 4:
Install gwibber

$ sudo python setup.py install

Step 5:
Run gwibber

Step 6:
Enjoy

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Nice Threethirty, thanks for

Submitted by chad on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 02:26.

Nice Threethirty, thanks for stopping by and giving the tip. I'm going to try this tomorrow!

Chad

Wish I'd read this earlier!

Submitted by Daniel on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 20:23.

Wish I'd seen this before spending 20 minutes trying to figure out how to install it! Biggest problem was the simplejson, which I installed last, as I didn't realize it was needed until Gwibber couldn't import it!

Anyway, this would have been a great help to me had I read it in advance!

Thanks.
Daniel ---> PenguinFanDan on Twitter and identi.ca

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