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7 Media aggregator and podcast client
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11 Copyright 2005-2012 Thomas Perl and the gPodder Team
16 gPodder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
17 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
18 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
19 (at your option) any later version.
21 gPodder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
22 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
23 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
24 GNU General Public License for more details.
26 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
27 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
33 - Python 2.6 or newer http://python.org/
34 - "sqlite3" Python module (usually included with Python)
35 - Feedparser 5.1.2 or newer http://code.google.com/p/feedparser/
36 - mygpoclient 1.4 or newer http://thp.io/2010/mygpoclient/
37 - Python D-Bus bindings
39 gPodder might still work with Python 2.5, but you may need to
40 install the json module ("simplejson") manually. We reserve the
41 right to drop support for Python 2.5 in future point releases.
43 As an alternative to python-dbus on Mac OS X and Windows, you can use
44 the dummy (no-op) D-Bus module provided in "tools/fake-dbus-module/".
46 For quick testing, you can use the script tools/localdepends.py to
47 install local copies of feedparser and mygpoclient into "src/" from
48 PyPI. With this, you get a self-contained gPodder CLI/WebUI codebase.
51 [ GTK UI - ADDITIONAL DEPENDENCIES ]
53 - PyGTK 2.12 or newer http://pygtk.org/
56 [ QML UI - ADDITIONAL DEPENDENCIES ]
58 - Qt 4.7.1 or newer http://qt.nokia.com/
59 - PySide 1.0.8 or newer http://www.pyside.org/
60 - Qt Mobility 1.2 or newer http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-mobility
61 - Qt Quick Components http://qt.gitorious.org/qt-components
63 The QML UI depends on the QtMultimediaKit QML bindings for playing
64 back audio (libdeclarative-multimedia in Debian) and on the WebKit QML
65 bindings for Flattr integration (libqtwebkit-qmlwebkitplugin in Debian).
67 The QML UI now also depends on Qt Quick Components. On MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan,
68 these components are pre-installed. You can install them on your Desktop by
69 checking out the code from the qt-components Git repository and running the
70 "./configure" script with the "-meego" parameter (+ the usual make install).
72 You might also need to copy the theme from /usr/share/themes/blanco/ on a
73 MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan device to your development machine in order for all UI
74 elements to be displayed correctly. Alternatively, you can use the free
75 "darko" theme from: https://github.com/jpavelek/meego-handset-theme-darko
78 [ OPTIONAL DEPENDENCIES ]
80 - Bluetooth file sending: gnome-obex-send or bluetooth-sendto
81 - HTML shownotes: python-webkit
82 - Flattr integration: python-webkit
83 - Size detection on Windows: PyWin32
84 - Native OS X support: ige-mac-integration
87 [ BUILD DEPENDENCIES ]
103 To set a specific python binary set PYTHON:
104 PYTHON=python2 make unittest
107 [ RUNNING AND INSTALLATION ]
109 To run gPodder from source, use..
111 bin/gpodder for the Gtk+ UI
112 bin/gpodder --qml for the QML UI
113 bin/gpo for the command-line interface
115 To install gPodder system-wide, use "make install". By default, this
116 will install *all* UIs and all translations. The following environment
117 variables are processed by setup.py:
119 LINGUAS space-separated list of languages to install
120 GPODDER_INSTALL_UIS space-separated list of UIs to install
121 GPODDER_MANPATH_NO_SHARE if set, install manpages to $PREFIX/man/man1
123 See setup.py for a list of recognized UIs.
125 Example: Install the CLI and Gtk UI with German and Dutch translations:
127 export LINGUAS="de nl"
128 export GPODDER_INSTALL_UIS="cli gtk"
131 The "make install" target also supports DESTDIR and PREFIX for installing
132 into an alternative root (default /) and prefix (default /usr):
134 make install DESTDIR=tmp/ PREFIX=/usr/local/
139 The CLI version of gPodder (bin/gpo) and the QML UI are compatible with
140 Python 3 after converting the codebase with the 2to3 utility:
142 2to3 -w bin/* src share/gpodder/extensions
144 You will also need a copy of "mygpoclient" converted using 2to3 and
145 a copy of "feedparser" converted using 2to3 (see the feedparser README
146 for details on how to get it set up on Python 3, including sgmllib).
148 Please note that the Gtk UI is not compatible with Python 3 (it will
149 be once we migrate the codebase to Gtk3/GObject Introspection).
151 The QML UI has been tested with PySide (Git revision a90f3bc) and
152 Python 3.2.2 - you can use the PySide buildscripts to build PySide:
154 http://github.com/PySide/BuildScripts
156 As of February 2012, Python 3 support is still experimental. Please
157 report any bugs that you find to the gPodder bug tracker (see below).
160 [ PORTABLE MODE / ROAMING PROFILES ]
162 The run-time environment variable GPODDER_HOME is used to set
163 the location for storing the database and downloaded files.
165 This can be used for multiple configurations or to store the
166 download directory directly on a MP3 player or USB disk:
168 export GPODDER_HOME=/media/usbdisk/gpodder-data/
171 [ CHANGING THE DOWNLOAD DIRECTORY ]
173 The run-time environment variable GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR is used to
174 set the location for storing the downloads only (independent of the
175 data directory GPODDER_HOME):
177 export GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/media/BigDisk/Podcasts/
179 In this case, the database and settings will be stored in the default
180 location, with the downloads stored in /media/BigDisk/Podcasts/.
182 Another example would be to set both environment variables:
184 export GPODDER_HOME=~/.config/gpodder/
185 export GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR=~/Podcasts/
187 This will store the database and settings files in ~/.config/gpodder/
188 and the downloads in ~/Podcasts/. If GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR is not set,
189 $GPODDER_HOME/Downloads/ will be used if it is set.
194 By default, gPodder writes log files to $GPODDER_HOME/Logs/ and removes
195 them after a certain amount of times. To avoid this behavior, you can set
196 the environment variable GPODDER_WRITE_LOGS to "no", e.g:
198 export GPODDER_WRITE_LOGS=no
203 Extensions are normally loaded from gPodder's "extensions/" folder (in
204 share/gpodder/extensions/) and from $GPODDER_HOME/Extensions/ - you can
205 override this by setting an environment variable:
207 export GPODDER_EXTENSIONS="/path/to/extension1.py extension2.py"
209 In addition to that, if you want to disable loading of all extensions,
210 you can do this by setting the following environment variable to a non-
213 export GPODDER_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=yes
215 If you want to report a bug, please try to disable all extensions and
216 check if the bug still appears to see if an extension causes the bug.
221 These instructions are mostly useful for the maintainer, but they are
222 documented here in case you want to update translations yourself:
224 To upload a changed translation template:
226 make messages # update translations from source
227 make clean # remove temporary files after "make messages"
228 tx push --source # upload po/messages.pot to transifex.net
230 To download a translation that has been updated:
232 tx pull -l XX -f # download po/XX.po from transifex.net
234 To generate Git commit commands for the translation updates:
236 python tools/i18n/generate_commits.py
238 The "tx" command is provided by the Transifex client (transifex-client
239 in Debian/Ubuntu) which can be obtained from:
241 http://help.transifex.com/features/client/
247 - Homepage http://gpodder.org/
248 - Bug tracker http://bugs.gpodder.org/
249 - Mailing list http://freelists.org/list/gpodder
250 - IRC channel #gpodder on irc.freenode.net
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253 Last updated: 2012-02-24 by Thomas Perl <thp.io/about>