How to install Anatine Twitter App in Ubuntu 16.04
To install Anatine Twitter App in Ubuntu 16.04
Anatine is a free, open source desktop twitter application and is considered to be the easiest way to have mobile view of Twitter on your desktop. It is built with electron framework thus it emulates the mobile twitter website on your desktop with all the features such as share, retweet and manage account. It is so simple to install Anatine on Ubuntu and this article covers the ground on the installation of Anatine twitter app in Ubuntu 16.04
Installing Anatine
Before you begin with the installation of Anatine, you need to create a new directory in /opt/. You can perform that action by making use of the following commands.
root@linuxhelp:/home/user# mkdir /opt/Anatine
root@linuxhelp:/home/user# cd /opt/Anatine/
Now download the anatine package by making use of the following.
root@linuxhelp:/opt/Anatine# wget https://github.com/sindresorhus/anatine/releases/download/0.5.1/Anatine-linux-0.5.1.zip
--2017-12-04 06:13:43-- https://github.com/sindresorhus/anatine/releases/download/0.5.1/Anatine-linux-0.5.1.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.112, 192.30.255.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.112|:443... connected.
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Saving to: ‘ Anatine-linux-0.5.1.zip’
Anatine-linux-0.5.1.zip 100%[===============================> ] 40.92M 342KB/s in 3m 8s
2017-12-04 06:16:53 (223 KB/s) - ‘ Anatine-linux-0.5.1.zip’ saved [42902971/42902971]
Once it is done, you need to extract the downloaded package.
root@linuxhelp:/opt/Anatine# unzip Anatine-linux-0.5.1.zip
Archive: Anatine-linux-0.5.1.zip
inflating: Anatine
inflating: LICENSE
inflating: LICENSES.chromium.html
inflating: content_shell.pak
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inflating: resources/app/vendor/scroll-to-tweet.js
inflating: resources/electron.asar
inflating: snapshot_blob.bin
extracting: version
Now, you need to download the icon, which can be done by making use of the following action.
root@linuxhelp:/opt/Anatine# wget https://github.com/sindresorhus/anatine/blob/master/static/Icon.png
--2017-12-04 06:17:27-- https://github.com/sindresorhus/anatine/blob/master/static/Icon.png
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.255.112, 192.30.255.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.255.112|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘ Icon.png’
Icon.png [ < => ] 34.96K 106KB/s in 0.3s
2017-12-04 06:17:28 (106 KB/s) - ‘ Icon.png’ saved [35804]
Next, create desktop launcher for anatine by running the following.
root@linuxhelp:/opt/Anatine# nano /usr/share/applications/anatine.desktop
And then, add the following lines to it.
[Desktop Entry] Name=Anatine Exec=/opt/Anatine/Anatine Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=/opt/Anatine/Icon.png
Once it is done, you need to save and exit the file.
To open the Anatine application you can use the search field. Once the application appears, log in with your credentials.
You will be taken to the Homepage of the application.
You can also use the Twitter search field, and the interface is as same as the mobile application.
You can also check all the notifications from this area.
Also, all your twitter conversations can be viewed.
With this, the installation of Anatine twitter app on Ubuntu 16.04. comes to an end.
If you leave the app and reopen, just pull down to refresh the timeline.
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