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Episode: 224
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Title: HPR0224: Installing gwibber webkit
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0224/hpr0224.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-07 14:17:29
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Yes, all right.
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Hi, I'm 330, you're listening to Hacker Public Radio and this isn't a copy
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fight. Today I'd like to talk a little bit about social networking. Now if you're
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anything like me, social networking has really kind of ruined your life. It seemed
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like all you ever do is sit around looking at people talking, not necessarily to
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you. Or you're cleaning out your inbox because of all the damn updates you get
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from Twitter and Identica and Facebook and my face and just all the other
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things. Well, what can you do about it? Well, Ryan Paul from Ars Technica wrote
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this really really cool app called Ghibber. It's dope for GNOME. I think you
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could probably get it running in KDE if you wanted. But what it does is it
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takes big flicker, Facebook, Identica and Twitter and matches them all
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together into one timeline. And what you can do is you can set a custom color
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for each of the different protocols that it's using. What I did was I would just
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open up all the home pages, take the color chooser and click on the logo of
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whatever I was using. So Dig showed up as a special kind of blue color and
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Twitter came up that kind of turquoise color. Flickr, I used the magenta that's
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in the R and things like that. And what it's done is it's really really made
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social networking easy. It's just an app that you can have open on your desktop
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or it'll pop up with little balloons so that you can see each message as they
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come in. So you don't have to really put a lot of time into it. It's just a
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quick glance. It doesn't take long to read 140 characters. And in the new
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version there's a little, it looks like a radar. But what it is is it's counting
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down how long that balloon's going to be there. So you know when you get a whole
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bunch of them you see how much time you have to read each one. And when they're
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done, you know when you're done with that when you can just click on a little X or
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you can just let it expire. It's actually really really cool. And later on I'll
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be describing how to install it because it's kind of iffy right now. It's it's
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in an alpha stage or so. Okay here's how you install Guiver on Ubuntu. My way to
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do it is based off of SegFaults original one which is on wiki.abuntu.com slash
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Guiver. But I actually compressed it into just a couple of things. First you
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want to you want to edit your slash Etsy slash app slash sources.list file.
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You want to add these there's three lines here. Deb space HTTP colon slash
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slash ppa.launchpad.net slash guiver.dash team slash Ubuntu.deck.
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And start Ubuntu space hearty space main. Then Deb.src space HTTP it's
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same thing. Then you want to add Deb space HTTP colon slash slash ppa.launchpad.net slash
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s temp slash Ubuntu space hearty space main. If you're on intrep it you won't need
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these next lines. But in hearty you do it's to get the web kit out of ppa which is Deb
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space HTTP colon slash slash ppa.launchpad.net slash web kit dash team
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space slash Ubuntu space hearty space main. And the Deb src for that. All this
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will be in the show notes. Then you need to do a serious app to get. He had this
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broken up in several places but I just crammed them all in together and it worked
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fine. So you'll need to run pseudo app get space install space bzr subversion live web
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kit. I'm not your rebate. There's a bunch of them it's like 10 15 things. They're
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in the show notes just copy and paste it stick it in there and it'll run. Then do
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a app get update. And then you'll need to pull a pie web GTK out of subversion which
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is sbn checkout HTTP colon slash slash pie web. Pie web kit GTK dot google code dot com
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slash sbn slash trunk slash space. Pie web GTK dash read dash only. Then you'll
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want to CD into that which is he's got here dot space CD space. Pie web kit GTK
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dash read dash only. I think the last time I installed it I didn't use the dot
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there because it wasn't going to the right place for some reason. But after that you
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do dot slash auto gen dot sh space dash dash prefix equals slash user slash local. Then
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make and then pseudo make install. And then you want to download the web kit UI. So you
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just CD into your home directory which Tilda should do it. And then a BZR space branch
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space LP colon. Tilda seg fault s e g p h a u l t slash whibber slash web kit UI. And
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then you'd there's two ways to do it. You can run it from the directory which you just
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CD into Tilda slash web kit UI. And then do dot slash run. Or you can just install pseudo
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Python setup dot pie install. And that'll it'll totally do it. Again all this will be
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in the show notes. This has been 330 and hacker public radio. And now you can go install
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glibber. Have fun.
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Thank you for listening to hacker public radio. HPR is sponsored by tarot.net. So head on
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