MX 17 Repository: The Corebird Thread

[Jerry3904]

That's very nice, thanks. Well designed, inside and out.

[nathan2423]

I have just found that a new project has developed a replacement for Corebird, called CAWBIRD. I have played with the ubuntu build that is located at the Opensuse open build service. It installs and runs well on the 19 beta, but will not install on 18.

If this could be added to the repos for 19 and even for 18 (if possible) it would be greatly appreciated. This version auto-refreshes which Corebird and later attempts to fork can no longer do. THANKS!

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cawbird-git/

https://github.com/ibboard/cawbird/

https://software.opensuse.org//download ... ge=cawbird

Cawbird is a fork of the Corebird Twitter client from Baedert, which became unsupported after Twitter disabled the streaming API.

Cawbird works with the new APIs and includes a few fixes and modifications that have historically been patched in to IBBoard's custom Corebird build on his personal Open Build Service account.

[Stevo]

Too bad they couldn't build Debian packages while they were at it. It's literally just a few extra mouse clicks.

I pulled the source files from their repo: https://build.opensuse.org/package/bina ... untu_18.04

But I have to add a copyright file.

Edit: according to the instructions, I can build it for MX 17/18, too, but without support for videos.

[nathan2423]

That would be great Stevo thank you as to both. I use this all the time for monitoring news.

[Stevo]

Here's MX 19 and MX 17 packages. I had to disable video playback for the MX 17 version, as mentioned above:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FDaOY ... F5q9yncxV1

I'm also sending them to the test repo.

[nathan2423]

Thank you Stevo! Just tested 17 and it appears to be working well. Will test 19 too in a moment.

Also - just saw this page for Cawbird: https://ibboard.co.uk/cawbird/