Gwibber
Installing Gwibber
This is a guide to install the Gwibber micro-blogging client on Ubuntu.
From Universe for 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
Gwibber is now available directly from Universe in Jaunty onwards.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/gwibber
From PPA for 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Create a file called /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gwibber.list. It should contain the gwibber PPA:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-team/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-team/ubuntu intrepid main
Then install the package gwibber. You don't need the webkit PPA or anything like that.
From PPA for 8.04 Hardy Heron
Create a file called /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gwibber.list. It should contain the gwibber PPA:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-team/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-team/ubuntu hardy main
and then the Webkit PPA:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ubuntu hardy main
Then install packages for libwebkit-1.0-1 python-webkitgtk python-egenix-mxdatetime and gwibber.
From Sources
- Install bazaar and subversion to download app and some needed libraries.
sudo apt-get install bzr subversion
(Hardy 8.04 only) Add the following PPA for Webkit to apt sources.list (/etc/apt/sources.list) or via System -> Administration -> Software Sources.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu hardy main
- Update
$ sudo apt-get update
- Install webkit and development libraries
$ sudo apt-get install libwebkit-1.0-1 libwebkit-dev
- Download pywebkitgtk
$ svn checkout http://pywebkitgtk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pywebkitgtk-read-only
- Install needed libraries and programs to compile pywebkitgtk.
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool libgtk2.0-dev python-dev python-gtk2 python-gtk2-dev libsexy2 libsexy-dev python-sexy libxslt1-dev
- Goto pywebkitgtk-read-only directory - Configure, compile and install pywebkitgtk.
$ . cd pywebkitgtk-read-only $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local $ make $ sudo make install
- Install need libraries and programs for gwibber
$ sudo apt-get install python-cairo-dev python-simplejson python-egenix-mxdatetime python-feedparser
- Download gwibber webkitui
$ cd ~ $ bzr branch lp:gwibber
- Goto /gwibber/bin directory to run gwibber
$ cd ~/gwibber/bin $ ./gwibber
- or install
sudo python setup.py install