Saturday 22 January 2011

Install Hotot Twitter client in Debian Squeeze / Mint Debian Edition

I've recently installed Mint Debian Edition on my Toshiba 6100 laptop which comes with Gwibber as it's Twitter/Facebook app. I prefer Hotot since it's lighter and I'm not bothered about Facebook usage.



























Hotot isn't in the MDE or Debian Squeeze repositories it uses but you can use the Ubuntu PPA instead.


Edit /etc/apt/sources.list as root with your favourite text editor and add these lines:


deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/hotot-team/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/hotot-team/ppa/ubuntu maverick main


Then save and exit then enter this command as root (you can use sudo on Mint Debian Edition):

 apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 41011AE2


Then do:

 sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install hotot


And enjoy :)
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9 comments:

  1. BR Jones23 March 2011 at 17:18

    Worked on my Mini 9 with Linux Mint Xfce Debian. Thanks a Million for the most excellent post! etech

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  2. Carl Draper23 March 2011 at 17:50

    Glad you like it, thanks :)

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  3. bfrost30 March 2011 at 04:32

    Works great on my Debian Testing. Thanks!

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  4. Anonymous16 May 2011 at 15:16

    lo he instalado en debian testing/sid y funciona correctamente, gracias.

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  5. Carl Draper16 May 2011 at 15:26

    Well i don't read Spanish, but that looks like a compliment, thanks! :)

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  6. Martin19 May 2011 at 02:17

    Now, that was easy enough. Thanks! :-)

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  7. Anonymous30 November 2011 at 00:38

    I want to install Hotot twitter on my linux Debian, thanks already to guide how to install

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  8. Anonymous27 January 2012 at 11:48

    Hi there!
    Debian Squeeze user here. Thank you very much for your clear and easy instructions. Hotot works like a charm!

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  9. Jon19 April 2012 at 12:52

    Thank you! Worked like a charm on Crunchbang. You saved me lots of searching :)

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