There are not many blogging clients out there for Linux operating systems - at least I didn’t find many. One of the most promising ones I found is BloGTK. BloGTK supports Blogs on Blogger.com and Wordpress(.com) or Movable Type powered blogs.
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BloGTK is actually written for GNOME but you can install it on KDE, too. Unfortunately the app doesn’t run “out of the box” after installation. So here’s a little guide for installing BloGTK on KDE:
Step 1: Install BloGTK using the Adept Package Manager. If you don’t have Python installed on your box already, Adept will install lots of python-related stuff, too. Don’t worry about this.
If you start BloGTK from the start menu, you’ll see a nice bouncing icon beside your cursor but BloGTK won’t start. Try to start BloGTK using a terminal. Now you can see the reason why the app doesn’t start properly:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ BloGTK
Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/apport_python_hook.py”, line 30, in apport_excepthook
import apport.report, apport.fileutils
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/apport/__init__.py”, line 1, in ?
from apport.report import Report
File “/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/apport/report.py”, line 15, in ?
import ctypes, ctypes.util, fnmatch
ImportError: No module named ctypes
Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/BloGTK", line 14, in ?
import gtkhtml2
ImportError: No module named gtkhtml2
So you need to install gtkhtml2!
Step 2: Again, open Adept and type gtkhtml2. Adept wil find some pakets; you’ll need the following ones:
libgtkhtml2
python/gtkhtml
Install both pakets. Now you should be able to run BloGTK.
Step 3: Setup your blog.
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