Update Gwibber To Continue Using Twitter [Ubuntu]

By Ricky on September 1st, 2010

Twitter has killed the basic authentication system used in a lot of Twitter clients yesterday. Earlier we wrote about how you can get the latest Choqok to continue using Twitter. It seems like the current version of Gwibber in the PPA does not support OAuth either.

So, to continue using Twitter in Gwibber, you have to update to the latest version of Gwibber. You can get it from either the Ubuntu Desktop PPA or the Gwibber Daily PPA. I suggest you use the Gwibber Daily PPA. The Ubuntu Desktop PPA has some stuffs that you may not want to update.

So to update, open the Terminal and execute the following commands:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwibber-daily/ppa

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get upgrade

If you want to use the Ubuntu Desktop PPA, replace ppa:gwibber-daily/ppa in the first command with ppa:ubuntu-desktop/ppa .

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Commando850

Careful, those update commands also update Thunderbird to the latest version. Something I really didn’t want to do!
- http://digitizor.com/ Ricky Laishram
  
  Thats is why I recommend the Gwibber Daily build PPA.
  - Michael
    
    The daily build ppa is not recommended for stable everyday use. It’s a development build and breaks frequently, and is probably the cause of the great frustration many people have with gwibber.
marcos

This worked for me after I deleted these folders:

~/.gconf/apps/gwibber
~/.cache/gwibber
H Myers

add-apt-repository gives me command not found. Is there a fix for Jaunty?
- http://digitizor.com/ Ricky Laishram
  
  The add-apt-repository command is only for karmic and above. Anyway that ppa supports only lucid and maverick. I doubt that there will be any ppa still supporting jaunty. I think you should try compiling from source. Or you can upgrade to lucid or maverick since support for jaunty ends next month.
  - H Myers
    
    Bah, I thought Jaunty was supported until next year. I’ll have to go to Karmic, at least: Lucid is more than a little broken for me (BSOD). Thanks for your reply, Ricky.
    - http://digitizor.com/ Ricky Laishram
      
      You are welcome.