How To Install Parcellite 0.4.1 on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

January 2nd, 2008 · Posted by Toor · 2 Comments

Parcellite is a lightweight GTK+ clipboard manager. This how to shows how you can install Parcellite 0.4.1 on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

1. Install all of the dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install python-gtk2 python-xml

2. Download Parcellite 0.4.1 from here. Or, checkout the latest version from the SVN:
$ sudo apt-get install subversion $ svn co http://xyhthyx.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/parcellite parcellite

3. Extract the tarball file:

$ tar zxvf parcellite-0.4.1.tar.gz

4. Install Parcellite:
$ cd parcellite-0.4.1/ $ sudo python setup.py install

Now you can run Parcellite from Applications → Accessories → Parcellite.

Parcellite screenshot

If you want to configure Parcellite, you can open Preferences dialog box.

Parcellite preferences screenshot

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Tags: Ubuntu · How-Tos

2 responses so far ↓

1 ilPestifero // Jan 4, 2008 at 11:54 am

Thanks, I’ll try.
Now i’m using Glipper, also a good clipboard manager.
2 Murali // Jan 5, 2008 at 8:05 am

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Alpha 2 .Parcellite was Installed without any problem.Program won’t start. -Invalid problem report”This problem report does not apply to a packaged program. (/usr/bin/parcellite)” What does this mean?

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