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Installing Gwibber under Debian Lenny

April11
Get the Bazaar package so you can get the gwibber source from https://code.launchpad.net/gwibber

# apt-get install bzr

When Bazaar is installed downoad the Gwibber code to your folder:
# bzr branch lp:gwibber

Now let’s get the dependacies. Gwibber uses the following dependacies:

* python (2.5)

* python-dbus (0.80.2)

* python-gtk2 (2.10.4)

* python-gconf (2.18.0)

* python-notify (0.1.1)

* python-webkitgtk (1.0.1)

* python-simplejson (1.9.1)

* python-egenix-mxdatetime (3.0.0)

* python-distutils-extra

* python-feedparser (4.1)

First let’s get python-webkitgtk beacuse you can’t apt-get it :) Download it from the following URL:

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/python-webkit

This is for the i386 arch:

# wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/p/pywebkitgtk/python-webkit_1.0.2-1_i386.deb

# dpkg -i python-webkit_1.0.2-1_i386.deb

It still needs few dependacies so run;
# apt-get -f install

and you will have python-webkit installed.

now
# apt-get install python-dbus python-gtk2 python-notify python-simplejson python-egenix-mxdatetime python-distutils-extra python-feedparser

And now your dependacies are installed and you can run the main install.py script from the gwibber source folder.

# python setup.py install

Wait for it to install it and that is it. Enjoy in gwibber everybody :D

UPDATE:
If you get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/gwibber”, line 55, in
from gwibber.client import GwibberClient
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/client.py”, line 12, in
from . import gwui, config, gintegration, configui, resources
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/gwui.py”, line 11, in
from mako.template import Template
ImportError: No module named mako.template

$ apt-get install python-mako

(Thanx to Vector)

 

Update #2:

Also installation for Debian Sid (thanks to Ryan)

So for sid the short instructions are here:

# installing depends & version control
sudo aptitude install bzr python-webkit python-dbus python-gtk2 python-notify python-simplejson python-egenix-mxdatetime python-distutils-extra python-feedparser python-mako

# check out source with bzr
bzr branch lp:gwibber

# cd into dir where bzr put source / setup files
cd gwibber

# run setup script
sudo python setup.py install

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24 Comments to

“Installing Gwibber under Debian Lenny”

  1. On April 26th, 2009 at 09:16 lostson Says:

    Thank you for this I was struggling with gwibber to install it on debian lenny for awhile now, again many thanks!

  2. On April 27th, 2009 at 12:08 Philippe Says:

    Thanks for your help :-)

  3. On May 2nd, 2009 at 03:16 seraphyn's status on Saturday, 02-May-09 10:16:51 UTC - Identi.ca Says:

    [...] Gwibber unter Lenny nutzen will: http://www.florijan.net/?p=3 , ich mag es [...]

  4. On May 3rd, 2009 at 00:59 Rotten Says:

    Thank You Very Much!

  5. On May 7th, 2009 at 08:30 profnoel's status on Thursday, 07-May-09 15:30:39 UTC - Identi.ca Says:

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  6. On May 8th, 2009 at 22:24 KnightMayor Says:

    Please, can you PM me and tell me few more thinks about this, I am really fan of your blog…gets solved properly asap.

  7. On May 25th, 2009 at 11:42 Vector Says:

    I did these steps but:

    vector@machine:$ gwibber

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/local/bin/gwibber”, line 55, in
    from gwibber.client import GwibberClient
    File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/client.py”, line 12, in
    from . import gwui, config, gintegration, configui, resources
    File “/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gwibber/gwui.py”, line 11, in
    from mako.template import Template
    ImportError: No module named mako.template

  8. On May 25th, 2009 at 11:47 Vector Says:

    Ok

    I did

    $ sudo apt-get install python-mako

    and it runs

    Thanks!

  9. On May 29th, 2009 at 07:06 Mr. Gato Says:

    Great tutorial. Thank you so much. :]

  10. On June 2nd, 2009 at 09:18 KrisBelucci Says:

    da best. Keep it going! Thank you

  11. On June 6th, 2009 at 16:17 CaSt Says:

    thanks for the help

  12. On June 13th, 2009 at 22:44 vinz Says:

    good tutorial, but python-imaging seems also be needed as dependency.

  13. On June 20th, 2009 at 15:19 El blog de Miguel » Blog Archive » Instalación de Gwibber en Debian Lenny - Blog sobre Linux, software libre y tecnología escrito por Miguel(alias mrcomputer) Says:

    [...] Fuente: http://www.florijan.net/?p=3 [...]

  14. On June 20th, 2009 at 22:38 ricardo nunes Says:

    hi for sometime now that i’ve been trying to install but allways failed, i installed choqok but now gwibber is working on my sidux box.

    by the way in debian sid you can apt-get install python-webkit

    thanks

  15. On June 21st, 2009 at 00:28 Instalando o Gwibber e Choqok em sidux « O Vigia Says:

    [...] Agora que tenho estado longe do Desktop e usado o laptop onde instalei a grande distro sidux que é Debian Sid com uns pózinhos mágicos para tudo funcionar, lembrei-me de experimentar outra vez, tentando instalar por deb’s não fui lá….Então resolvi apelar ao mestre google para ver o que aparecia e encontrei a papinha toda feita e diga-se que é bastante simples, basta irem até ao blog Florijan [...]

  16. On June 22nd, 2009 at 15:51 ryan Says:

    So for sid the short instructions are here:

    # installing depends & version control
    sudo aptitude install bzr python-webkit python-dbus python-gtk2 python-notify python-simplejson python-egenix-mxdatetime python-distutils-extra python-feedparser python-mako

    # check out source with bzr
    bzr branch lp:gwibber

    # cd into dir where bzr put source / setup files
    cd gwibber

    # run setup script
    sudo python setup.py install

    Nothing will appear in gnome menu (at least didn’t for me), so you will want to create a panel launcher that runs ‘gwibber’

  17. On June 29th, 2009 at 08:55 pisco's status on Monday, 29-Jun-09 07:55:50 UTC - Identi.ca Says:

    [...] http://www.florijan.net/2009/04/11/installing-gwibber-under-debian-lenny/ [...]

  18. On July 4th, 2009 at 06:17 identi.ca unter Debian Lenny | ubuntublog.ch Says:

    [...] aber die ist in den Quellen von Lenny nicht verfügbar. Bei Florijan habe ich dann eine Alternative zur Installation für gwibber gefunden, die ich anwenden und erfolgreich zu Ende bringen konnte. Die [...]

  19. On July 4th, 2009 at 17:35 Christoph Says:

    For me (debian sid) it also needs python-xdg.

  20. On July 25th, 2009 at 17:46 gnex (gnex) 's status on Saturday, 25-Jul-09 16:46:30 UTC - Identi.ca Says:

    [...] http://www.florijan.net/2009/04/11/installing-gwibber-under-debian-lenny/ [...]

  21. On July 27th, 2009 at 15:44 Kartik Mistry Says:

    Official package is coming into Sid. However, its difficult to backport it into Lenny as python-webkit now depends on python-support >= 0.90 and Lenny has 0.84 :(

  22. On August 11th, 2009 at 20:41 James Bernard (jamesthedisciple) 's status on Tuesday, 11-Aug-09 19:41:32 UTC - Identi.ca Says:

    [...] #gwibber have a look here: http://www.florijan.net/2009/04/11/installing-gwibber-under-debian-lenny/ hope this [...]

  23. On September 1st, 2009 at 21:44 Magnus Adolfsson (adma7) 's status on Tuesday, 01-Sep-09 20:43:51 UTC - Identi.ca Says:

    [...] http://www.florijan.net/2009/04/11/installing-gwibber-under-debian-lenny/ a few seconds ago from mail [...]

  24. On October 28th, 2009 at 00:43 Francisco Souza Says:

    Thanks a lot (:

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