Hamster Time Tracker on Ubuntu 18.04/Bionic

Hi everyone

I've been using the Hamster Time Tracking applet
(https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster) for many years, keeping
track of my time spent on commercial projects. However, this project
is undergoing a major refactoring and is no longer available available
from the Ubuntu repositories. Sadly, a fact that I discovered after
upgrading my Laptop from Linux Mint 18.2 to 19.1.

Using instructions from a github comment
(https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/issues/356#issuecomment-385093502),
I was able to get it installed and working on my Ubuntu 18.04 (which
underpins Linux Mint 19.1), using packages from 17.10:

Install some dependencies first:
sudo apt-get install python-gnome2 python-gconf python-pyorbit
liborbit2 libidl-2-0

Download the following libraries
- python-wnck_2.32.0+dfsg-4_amd64.deb
  http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gnome-python-desktop/python-wnck_2.32.0+dfsg-4_amd64.deb
- hamster-applet_2.91.3+git20120514.b9fec3e1-1ubuntu2_all.deb
  https://launchpadlibrarian.net/202355025/hamster-applet_2.91.3+git20120514.b9fec3e1-1ubuntu2_all.deb

Install the downloaded debian packages:
sudo dpkg -i python-wnck_2.32.0+dfsg-4_amd64.deb
hamster-applet_2.91.3+git20120514.b9fec3e1-1ubuntu2_all.deb

Since this was a fresh install, I had to copy my old Hamster database
across. The database is located in:
$USER/.local/share/hamster-applet/hamster.db

And we're back in business! :-)

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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