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Installation

Several solutions are available to install glipper on your system.

Install glipper with your systems software management system

The best solution for installing glipper is to use your system's software management system. If you are using some form of free software operating system chances are you have a very good quality software management system with which you can install glipper, distributions such as as GNU/Linux or BSD are ideal. Examples of software management systems. You should refer to the documentation on your particular software management system to learn how to use it.

As glipper is a relatively recent piece of software, it may not yet be available to your system however. You can perhaps find a package for your particular system on Internet.

Compile glipper from source

If you cannot install Glipper with your system management software you can compile it from sourcecode. You must have all Glipper dependencies installed before compiling it, see below for the list of dependencies.

After downloading the glipper source tarball, open a terminal and change your current path to the directory containing the tarball.

cd <DIRECTORY CONTAINING THE DOWLOADED ARCHIVE>

Now decompress the tarball. The following directory will extract it's contents to a sub-directory of your current path.

tar xvf glipper-<VERSION>.tar.gz

Move into the directory we just created by decompressing the tarball.

cd glipper-<VERSION>

Now configure glipper by running the configure script.

./configure

If you are using a debian based system, you may want to call configure with this parameters: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gconf-schema-file-dir=/usr/share/gconf/schemas

Now compile glipper with the following command.

make

Now install glipper, for which you must be the root user. You may open a temporary shell by executing the "su" command from which you may install glipper. Otherwise precede the following command with "sudo".

make install

Glipper can now be used by right-clicking on the GNOME panel and select "Add to Panel". In the dialog, choose Clipboardmanager and Glipper will appear in the Panel.

Dependancies

Required dependencies:

Python 2.4 or above
pygtk-2.6 or above (modules: gtk, gtk.gdk, gtk.glade, gobject)
gnome-python-2.10 or above (modules: gconf, gnome, gnome.ui, gnomevfs)
gnome-python-extras-2.10 or above (module: gnomeapplet)
gtk+-2.6 or above to compile global hotkey and icon entry
a c compiler (gcc)
gnome-desktop-2.10 to compile .desktop parsing
optional: Python Cryptography Toolkit (python-crypto) for the network plugin

Glipper manual

To read the Glipper manual, right-click on the Glipper icon in the panel and choose Help.