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hpr0224 :: Installing gwibber webkit

threethirty installs gwibber using webkit on Ubuntu

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Installing gwibber webkit https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gwibber

This is a guide to install the gwibber micro-blogging client on Ubuntu 8.04

From PPA

Create a file called /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gwibber.list. It should contain the gwibber PPA:

deb https://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-team/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src https://ppa.launchpad.net/gwibber-team/ubuntu hardy main
deb https://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu hardy main

and then the Webkit PPA (you probably don't need it if you're on Intrepid):

deb https://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src https://ppa.launchpad.net/webkit-team/ubuntu hardy main


sudo apt-get install bzr subversion 
libwebkit-1.0-1 libwebkit-dev python-webkitgtk
 build-essential autoconf automake libtool 
libgtk2.0-dev python-dev python-gtk2 
python-gtk2-dev libsexy2 libsexy-dev python-sexy
 libxslt1-dev python-cairo-dev python-simplejson 
python-egenix-mxdatetime


            $ sudo apt-get update

            $ svn checkout https://pywebkitgtk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pywebkitgtk-read-only


   7. Goto pywebkitgtk-read-only directory - Configure, compile and install pywebkitgtk.
          *

            $ . cd pywebkitgtk-read-only
            $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/local
            $ make
            $ sudo make install

   9. Download gwibber webkitui
          *

            $ cd ~
            $ bzr branch lp:~segphault/gwibber/webkitui

  10. Goto /webkitui directory to run gwibber
          *

            $ cd ~/webkitui
            $ ./run

  11. or install
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            sudo python setup.py install



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