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OK, I'm trying to install GTG again. This time, I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop (64-bit). To get things started, I ran the same pre-steps as before: added myself to the sudo list, installed some basic tools, and set up bzr, and grabbed the code from launchpad. I tried running: sudo apt-get install python-liblarch python-liblarch-gtk But it turns out that this installs v1.0 and GTG is expecting v2.1. No worries. Just follow the instructions to do a git clone. The trick after that is to run ./gtg -l (instead of just ./gtg). To eliminate…Read more …

Came across the GTG project and was interested in possibly doing some development on it. The first major hurdle I encountered was getting a VM setup that worked with the right libraries. Since I was interested in working on the geolocalization features in GTG, I had to install the python modules for geoclue, clutter, and champlain. Turns out I was having a hard time getting python-clutter to install because it seemed that the apt sources were from an older version of Debian (squeeze) than what I was running (wheezy). Modifying the /etc/apt/sources.list, as…Read more …