How to install Whatever on Ubuntu
To install Whatever on Ubuntu
Whatever is an open source and cross-platform, unofficial Evernote client application and can be used as an alternative to Evernote. Instalation of Whatever is very simple. In this tutorial, you will get to know the installaiton process of Whatever on Ubuntu.
Installing Whatever
Navigate to usr/local/src directory in order to install Whatever on your local machine. Use the following command for the same purpose.
root@linuxhelp1:~# cd /usr/local/src
Once you are in the directory, use the following command to download the required package.
root@linuxhelp1:/usr/local/src# wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/whatever-evernote-client/v1.0.0/Whatever_1.0.0_amd64.deb
--2017-04-17 14:42:30-- https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/whatever-evernote-client/v1.0.0/Whatever_1.0.0_amd64.deb
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)... 216.34.181.59
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net (downloads.sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.59|:443... connected.
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 31371438 (30M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ Whatever_1.0.0_amd64.deb’
Whatever_1.0.0_amd64.deb 100%[=========================================================================================> ] 29.92M 282KB/s in 2m 12s
2017-04-17 14:44:44 (232 KB/s) - ‘ Whatever_1.0.0_amd64.deb’ saved [31371438/31371438]
Once the package is downloaded, you can install it via dpkg command - Ubuntu’ s default package manger used for offline installation. Here, gdebi command is used as gdebi is the frontend for dpkg and also it installs all the necessary dependent packages.
root@linuxhelp1:/usr/local/src# apt-get install gdebi -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
gdebi-core gksu gnome-icon-theme libcairo-perl libgksu2-0 libglib-perl libgtk2-perl libpango-perl
Suggested packages:
libfont-freetype-perl libgtk2-perl-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gdebi gdebi-core gksu gnome-icon-theme libcairo-perl libgksu2-0 libglib-perl libgtk2-perl libpango-perl
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 476 not upgraded.
Need to get 10.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 21.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 gdebi-core all 0.9.5.7ubuntu1 [9,716 B]
Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
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Setting up libcairo-perl (1.106-1build1) ...
Setting up libglib-perl (3:1.320-2) ...
Setting up libpango-perl (1.227-1) ...
Setting up libgtk2-perl (2:1.2498-1) ...
Processing triggers for gconf2 (3.2.6-3ubuntu6) ...
Setting up gksu (2.0.2-9ubuntu1) ...
Setting up gdebi (0.9.5.7ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
All is now set for the installation of Whatever. Use the gdebi command for installing it.
root@linuxhelp1:/usr/local/src# gdebi Whatever_1.0.0_amd64.deb Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading state information... Done Requires the installation of the following packages: libappindicator1 libindicator7 An unofficial Evernote client for Linux desktop Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libindicator7 amd64 12.10.2+16.04.20151208-0ubuntu1 [21.9 kB] Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 libappindicator1 amd64 12.10.1+16.04.20170215-0ubuntu1 [19.4 kB] Fetched 41.2 kB in 0s (0 B/s) . . . Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
Whatever has been installed, you can open the application by running whatever command or else from the Ubuntu dash.
Wasn' t it a simple installation process? Using Whatever is also as simple as its installation. If you are used to the interface of Evernote, using Whatever is quite easy as it retains all of Evernote functionality including a background working mode and tray icons.
gdebi Whatever_1.0.0_amd64.deb