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Installing Gloobus Preview from the PPA

This PPA has the older release without the new interface by DanRabbit. If you are on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala you can use this PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~gloobus-dev/+archive/gloobus-preview

Or simply enter this into the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gloobus-dev/gloobus-preview
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install gloobus-preview

Please note that it will also upgrade your Nautilus a.k.a. File Browser with our patch so that by simply pressing Space when a file is selected it opens Gloobus-Preview.

Installing Gloobus Preview from Source (recommended)

You will need a few dependencies before you can compile Gloobus-preview. On a Debian/Ubuntu system, you can usually resolve them with this command

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libgvfscommon-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libcairomm-1.0-dev libtag1-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libgnomeui-dev unoconv libgtksourceview2.0-dev build-essential libswfdec-0.8-dev automake libtool bzr libbz2-dev libdjvulibre-dev libspectre-dev


Once all the dependencies are installed, the Gloobus-Preview source can be branched by:

bzr branch lp:gloobus-preview

then to install Gloobus-preview do:

cd gloobus-preview
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Once you installed it you can update it with (remember to be in the gloobus-preview folder):

sudo make uninstall 
bzr pull
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Installing CoverGloobus from the PPA

You can install CoverGloobus from the official PPA! Just execute these commands in the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gloobus-dev/covergloobus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install covergloobus

Installing CoverGloobus from Source (recommended)

bzr branch lp:covergloobus

then to install CoverGloobus do:

cd covergloobus
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install

Once you installed it you can update it with (remember to be in the covergloobus folder):

sudo make uninstall
bzr pull
./autogen.sh
make
sudo make install
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