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Snakefire: Campfire Desktop client for Linux

LICENSE

Snakefire is released under the [MIT License] license.

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INSTALLATION

Some operative systems have a quick install method available. If your system / distribution is not listed here, check the MANUAL INSTALLATION section below.

Arch Linux

Snakefire is in an [AUR repository] arch-aur-snakefire. If you have packer packer, you can install it with (if you don't have packer, you should really [get it] packer)

    $ packer -S snakefire

MANUAL INSTALLATION

Requirements

Python Setup Tools

For Ubuntu/Debian based systems, Python setup tools is in the official repositories, and can be installed the following way:

	$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools

For Fedora, Python setup tools is in the official repositories and can be installed the following way:

	$ yum install python-setuptools

For Arch Linux, Python setup tools is in the extra repository, and can be installed with:

	$ pacman -S python2-distribute

Other OS should refer to the [Python setup tools page] python-setuptools

Pyfire

Pyfire pyfire is required.

For Ubuntu/Debian based systems, Pyfire is in [Zakaria Zajac's PPA] zakaria_zajac_ppa repository, which must be added to install:

    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zak-d/python-pyfire && sudo apt-get update
    $ sudo apt-get install python-pyfire

For Arch Linux, Pyfire is in an [AUR repository] arch-aur-pyfire. If you have packer packer, you can install it with (if you don't have packer, you should really [get it] packer)

	$ packer -S python-pyfire

For Fedora, install Pyfire using Pip, which is in the official repositories

    $ yum install python-pip
    $ pip-python install pyfire

Other OS may install it through Python's PIP pip:

    $ pip install pyfire

Or also using [Easy Install] easy_install:

    $ easy_install pyfire

PyQT4

The python library for QT is required.

For Ubuntu/Debian based systems, PyQT4 is in the official repositories, and can be installed the following way:

	$ sudo apt-get install python-qt4

For Fedora, PyQT4 is in the official repositories, and can be installed with:

    $ yum install PyQt

For Arch Linux, PyQT4 is in the extra repository, and can be installed with:

	$ pacman -S python2-pyqt

Other OS should refer to the [PyQT4 download page] pyqt-download

Keyring

For Ubuntu/Debian based systems, Keyring is in the official repositories, and can be installed the following way:

For Ubuntu (GNOME) or Kubuntu (KDE):

	$ sudo apt-get install python-keyring

For Fedora, Keyring is in the official repositories, and can be installed with:

    $ yum install python-keyring

For Arch Linux, Keyring is in an AUR repository. Install it with packer:

	$ packer -S python-keyring

Other OS should read [Python Keyring installation docs] keyring-install.

If you are on GNOME you also need to install python-gnomekeyring:

For Ubuntu/Debian based systems:

    $ sudo apt-get install python-gnomekeyring

For Fedora systems:

    $ yum install gnome-python2-gnomekeyring

For Arch Linux systems:

    $ pacman -S python-gnomekeyring

All XFCE users should install GNOME keyring.

Notifications

For Ubuntu/Debian based systems, python-notify is in the official repositores, and can be installed the following way:

    $ sudo apt-get install python-notify

For Fedora, python's libnotify is in the official repositories, and can be installed with:

    $ yum install notify-python

For Arch Linux, python-notify is in the extra repository, and can be installed with:

    $ pacman -S python-notify

Spell checking

For Ubuntu/Debian based systems, PyEnchant is in the official repositores, and can be installed the following way:

    $ sudo apt-get install python-enchant

For Fedora, PyEnchant is in the official repositories, and can be installed with:

    $ yum install python-enchant

For Arch Linux, PyEnchant is in the community repository, and can be installed with:

    $ pacman -S python2-pyenchant

You now need to install a relevant dictionary.

For Ubuntu/debian based systems, look for the appropriate aspell dictionary. For example, to install the english dictionary:

    $ sudo apt-get install aspell-en

For Fedora, search for an aspell dictionary. For example, to install the english dictionary:

    $ yum install aspell-en

For Arch Linux, search for an aspell dictionary. For example, to install the english dictionary:

    $ pacman -S aspell-en

Other OS (such as Mac OSX) should look into [installing PyEnchant and appropriate dictionaries] pyenchant

Installing Snakefire

From the path where you have downloaded Snakefire, as root user, do (if you run Arch Linux, change the python to python2):

    $ python setup.py install

For Ubuntu, better with sudo:

    $ sudo python setup.py install

Running the developer version

If you wish to run the latest version of Snakefire, without having to explicitly install it, follow these instructions (make sure to previously install the requirements):

  1. Get the latest development version by cloning from its GIT repository:

     $ git clone git://github.com/mariano/snakefire
     $ cd snakefire
    
  2. If you are on KDE, install the notify configuration to your home directory by running the following commands from the directory where you installed Snakefire:

     $ export KDE_LOCAL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --localprefix`
     $ mkdir -p $KDE_LOCAL_PREFIX/share/apps/Snakefire
     $ cp packaging/linux/*.notifyrc $KDE_LOCAL_PREFIX/share/apps/Snakefire
     $ killall knotify4
    
  3. You are now ready to run Snakefire. Enter the directory where you installed Snakefire, and do:

     $ PYTHONPATH=".:snakefire/" bin/snakefire
    

You can keep up with the latest updates by accessing the directory where you installed Snakefire, and running:

	$ git pull --rebase

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