Getting Specto
Official packages and tarballs
The latest Specto release is version 0.3.1 . These are the "release" packages for it. Useful if your distribution provides no packages for Specto, or if their packages are outdated.
- Tarball (source package)
Personal Package Archives for Ubuntu
You can add one of our Ubuntu repositories to your software sources list to get updates automatically when we release a new version. There are two different repositories available:
- The releases repository for stable releases and release candidates
- The bleeding edge "bzr" repository: this repository packages Specto automatically whenever the main development branch is updated. This is not necessarily an "unstable" repository (as we try to not break stuff in the "main" branch), but it is not an "official releases" repository either. Useful for testing the latest and greatest.
Linux Distributions that provide Specto
Take note that distribution packages might not always be up to date, and may contain bugs that are fixed in newer versions (or development versions).
If you are a package maintainer and would like to package Specto, or if you know a Linux distribution that provides Specto that is not listed here, please send an email so we can add it.
- Frugalware Linux
- Debian GNU/Linux
- Ubuntu (see also the section about "Personal Package Archives" above)
- Fedora
Getting the development version from Bazaar (bzr)
If you want to take a look at all the branches related to Specto (some of which could be made by third parties), visit our launchpad bazaar branches page.
To get the official main development branch (named specto-main), grab it with this command:
bzr branch lp:specto
You may want to keep your bzr version of Specto updated from time to time. Assuming you are in the directory where you keep the Specto bzr trunk (specto-main), you can do this quite easily:
bzr pull
Running or installing from a tarball or a bzr branch
After extracting the contents of a tarball, you will notice Specto has a bunch of files and folders. Before doing anything remotely productive, you need to make sure you fill the dependencies to make Specto work.
Dependencies
This is the most current list of required software packages needed to compile Specto, based on Ubuntu and Debian's package names.
- bzr (for the bazaar watch plugin, or if you want to grab Specto from a bazaar branch)
- gnome-icon-theme?
- libgnome-keyring0
- librsvg2-common
- python
- python-central
- python-dev (if you run the development version with setup.py)
- python-gconf
- python-glade2
- python-gnome2
- python-gnome2-extras
- python-gtk2 (version 2.10 or higher; this also means you need GTK+2.10 or newer)
- python-numpy (if you have python-gtk2 version 2.14 or higher)
- python-libxml2
- python-notify and python-dbus (to allow notification messages)
- xdg-utils
Now that you took care of those dependencies, there are two ways to run Specto: running it locally or installing it system-wide.
Running Specto locally
To run specto without installing it: just run the script
launch.sh
Running Specto by installing it
To install specto system-wide (do this if you have multiple users doing it, if you are a package maintainer or if you want the translations to work). You need to run the setup script as a super-user. Do this in the folder where you extracted Specto:
sudo python setup.py install && sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor
You can then run specto by typing "specto" and pressing enter in a terminal, or look in your GNOME applications menu, there should be an entry for Specto in the "accessories" submenu.