This is a guide to install the gwibber micro-blogging client on Ubuntu 8.04.
1. Install bazaar and subversion to download app and some needed libraries.
Code:
sudo apt-get install bzr subversion
2. Add the following ppa for webkit to apt sources.list or via System -> Administration -> Software Sources.
Code:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu hardy main
3. Install webkit and development libraries
Code:
sudo apt-get install libwebkit-1.0-1 libwebkit-dev
4. Download pywebkitgtk
Code:
svn checkout http://pywebkitgtk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pywebkitgtk-read-only
5. Install needed libraries and programs to compile pywebkitgtk.
Code:
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool libgtk2.0-dev python-dev python-gtk2 python-gtk2-dev libsexy2 libsexy-dev python-sexy libxslt1-dev
6. Goto pywebkitgtk-read-only directory - Configure, compile and install pywebkitgtk.
Code:
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install
7. Install need libraries and programs for gwibber
Code:
sudo apt-get install python-cairo-dev python-simplejson
8. Download gwibber webkitui
Code:
bzr branch lp:~segphault/gwibber/webkitui
9. Goto /webkitui directory to run gwibber
10. or install
Code:
sudo python setup.py install
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