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Installing gwibber (webkitui) cheat sheet

I have heard people on asking on identi.ca on how to install the webkit version of gwibber. This is a quick cheat sheet I hope will help people get started.

1. Install bazaar and subversion to download app and some needed libraries.
sudo apt-get install bzr subversion
2. Add the following ppa for webkit or apt sources.list
http://ppa.launchpad.net/stemp/ubuntu hardy main
3. Install webkit and development libraries
sudo apt-get install libwebkit-1.0-1 libwebkit-dev
4. Download pywebkitgtk
svn checkout http://pywebkitgtk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ pywebkitgtk-read-only
5. Install needed libraries and programs to compile pywebkitgtk.
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.
$ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr
$ make
$ sudo make install
7. Install need libraries and programs for gwibber
sudo apt-get install python-cairo-dev python-simplejson python-egenix-mxdatetime
8. Download gwibber webkitui
bzr branch lp:~segphault/gwibber/webkitui
9a. Goto gwibber directory - Run gwibber
./run
9b. or install
sudo python setup.py install

Contribute to this guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/gwibber