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A concise install instruction for YakYak on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=YakYak
Comment=Desktop client for Google Hangouts
GenericName=Hangouts Client
Exec=/opt/yakyak-linux-x64/yakyak
Icon=/opt/yakyak-linux-x64/resources/app/icons/[email protected]
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=YakYak
Type=Application
Categories=Network;
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://github.com/yakyak/yakyak/releases/download/v1.4.3/yakyak-1.4.3-linux-x64.tar.gz
tar -xvzf yakyak-1.4.3-linux-x64.tar.gz
rm yakyak-1.4.3-linux-x64.tar.gz
sudo mv yakyak-linux-x64/ /opt
# [sudo] password for $(whoami)
cd /opt
sudo chown -R root:root yakyak-linux-x64/
sudo chmod +x yakyak-linux-x64/yakyak
cd /usr/share/applications
sudo touch yakyak.desktop
sudo nano yakyak.desktop # paste the contents of YakYak.desktop
sudo chown root:root yakyak.desktop
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