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A concise install instruction for YakYak on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04
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| #!/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; |
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| 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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