I as a user of KDE and Twitter, I almost just received news that hurt me as if it were a blow to my lower area: choqok, the best client for Twitter / Status.net de GNU / Linux, is officially out of support.
And I have no idea if something has had to do with it, but this morning it didn't work anymore. Ready, he died. And is that Twitter turned off its old API. The point is that its developer (who was also who was in charge of Blogilo), you have made use of your rights and just put the project asideWell, now we are going to dedicate the time to choqok to photography.
But not all is lost. At least for me there is always a worthy replacement, which has a version in Qt and which we have already talked about in DesdeLinux: hotot.
In fact, I just got a tweet from his official account that says:
Twitter shuts off old API. Old versions stop working. Please update to latest version of Hotot Chrome. It works on new API.
Installation on Debian / Ubuntu
To install it on Debian what I did was download the packages from Sid's repository:
And I installed them using the command:
sudo dpkg -i hotot-qt_0.9.8.13 + git20130311-4_amd64.deb hotot-common_0.9.8.13 + git20130311-4_all.deb
In the case of Ubuntu We just have to add the line to sources.list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/hotot-team/ppa/ubuntu [lucid / maverick / natty / oneiric / precise / quantal / raring] main
We update and install:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install hotot-qt
Choqok already has new developers 🙂
http://momeny.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/choqok-will-back-soon/
He also says that they will repair it soon
Great! 😀
I suppose that in the case of Ubuntu the line for the sources.list should remain from the following. way no?
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/hotot-team/ppa/ubuntu rare main
Exact. It depends on the version of Ubuntu you use.
Can't add the PPA and that's it?
In Debian and Ubuntu derivatives, yes, but for Debian users, they would have to add the public key manually to be able to add the repos to "/etc/apt/sources.list" using nano or using the Software Sources if you have the laziness of editing the sources of the repos (this last process is the one I used in Squeeze, but in Wheezy this application is no longer so stable so I reported it to the maintainers).
The last version where hotot worked was 12.04.
And as I have tried, outside of Debian and Ubuntu, nowhere can you register a Twitter account in Hotot. And the same happened to me with choqok in fedora, mageia and osuse in their latest versions with KDE (unless it is the problem of having tried in livecd and not with the distro properly installed).
Tokens, tokens everywhere. That same problem is the one I always had with Hotot when starting on Twitter (with Identi.ca I didn't have that kind of problem).
I ran into this same problem since last night.
Today I just read that twitter stopped supporting its API 1.0, so the first thing I thought about was Hotot-QT as well.
While I wait for this to be fixed in Choqok, I will install Hotot-QT on my new Arch.
Too bad they haven't yet updated hotot in archlinux ...
It worked for me perfect, thanks Elav.
I have not been able to know how to manage several accounts at the same time in Hotot -.-
I also wanted to do the same, but it is not possible to keep the Twitter and Identi.ca accounts open together in Hotot (I also tried in Hootsuite, but it cannot even be in its version as an application).
That is why I am using Hotot on identi.ca and not another Twitter client on Chrome / Chromium.
Anyway, I'll try it to see if it doesn't ask me for the damn token that has been bugging me when it comes to accessing Twitter.
Twitter tires with the subject of AP |, you always have to be updated. I use the SILVER BIRD extension in Chrome / Chromium and it is quite useful. Today it did not work, update to the latest version and voila.
I use Tweetdeck and Hootsuite as Twitter clients, and Hotot as Identi.ca client (although they are already rumored to be moving to pump.io) on Chromium / Chrome. The misfortune of all this is that Hotot is that its clients for each GNU / Linux distro are not always up to date.
One of the things that I prefer Hotot over other clients, is that the tweets are loaded in real time. Interestingly, when I'm on KDE, no matter what version (Gtk, Qt, KDE) I use, it takes a couple of minutes to request automatic reload, unless I press "r". The bad thing is that when doing it, the Twitter API saturates or something like that x)
It works very well for me and I was looking for something like that, thank you very much elav.
I've been using it for a while and I loved it from the beginning, although I also love Polly. What do you think of Polly?
What version of Hotot can I use with Linux Mint 15 Olivia with Cinnamon desktop? I have tried Hotot-GTK and Hotot-QT and despite being able to link it to my Twitter profile, I can't see my Timeline or anything.