Although with Ubuntu we have everything we need when we install the operating system, it is true that many of us are not happy and sometimes we change the applications that come by default in the Canonical distro for other more personalized ones or that we like better or simply because we are more sympathetic to the philosophy of the app.
A similar case happens to me with Twitter clients, the one that comes by default in Ubuntu does not convince me, either Birdie ni Turpial. So in my search for clients I came across CoreBird, a simple client that promises a lot.
Corbird offers almost the same as Tweetdeck but uses the GTK3 libraries so that its operation in environments with these libraries is quite fast and efficient. In addition, Corebird includes the ability to view lists, mentions, hashtags, tweets, send messages, etc ... Not forgetting the recent feature that allows us to watch videos and streaming thanks to the use of gstreamer libraries.
But this good application does not have the official endorsement of the distributions, which means that we either install it through the compilation of the package or we install it through the third-party repository.
Corebird installation via repository
To install Corebird through the repository, we first open a terminal and type the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/corebird sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install corebird
If we have an Ubuntu version 14.04 or earlier, we will need to add another repository first that allows us to include the GTK3 libraries, this would be done by writing the following in the terminal, before the above:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
Once we have installed everything, we can remove this last repository by typing the following in the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
Corebird installation via deb package
There is another possibility, which is to install the application through a deb package. This deb package can be downloaded from here. Once we have it, we open the terminal in the Downloads folder and write the following:
sudo dpkg -i corebird_0.9~trusty0-1_i386.deb ( o el nombre del paquete que hayamos bajado)
Remember that this package also needs the GTK3 libraries, something we already have if we have the latest version of Ubuntu. With this we already have our Corebird client ready to run and use with our Twitter account.
I get an error "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libglib2.0-0 (> = 2.41.1)" In Ubuntu Mint XFCE 17.1
Have you used the deb or repository installation method? If it's the repository, have you installed the latest ones?
It worked for me on Xubuntu, thanks.