I would like to thank Puller for the information on how to install Giver. Here is a cool video on how the program works: Giver Video


Install needed packages:
Code:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential mercurial libmono-cairo2.0-cil mono mono-devel libmono-dev mono-gmcs monodoc
I don't have fiesty-backports turned on so I manually downloaded avahi-sharp

Package site: http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/s...ds=avahi-sharp
Download package here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/poo...a/avahi-sharp/

Code:
$ wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/poo...6.11-1_all.deb
Code:
$ dpkg -i libavahi1.0-cil_0.6.11-1_all.deb
more software needed:
Code:
$ hg clone http://hg.circular-chaos.org/notify-sharp
Code:
$ cd notify-sharp/
Code:
$ autoscan
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$ automake --add-missing
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$ autoreconf
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$ ./configure
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$ make
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$ sudo make install
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$ cd ..
Now lets install Giver:

Download Giver here: http://code.google.com/p/giver/downloads/list

Code:
$ wget http://giver.googlecode.com/files/giver-0.1.4.tar.gz
Code:
$ tar -zxvf giver-0.1.4.tar.gz
Code:
$ cd giver-0.1.4/
Code:
$ ./configure
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$ make
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$ sudo make install
Some might have problems launching the program. Running this command will help fix some of the problems:
Code:
$ export MONO_PATH=/usr/local/lib/mono/notify-sharp
Now launch the program:

Alt + F2
Type: giver