Installing Guake¶
System-wide installation¶
Always prefere using your package manager to install guake.
Debian / Ubuntu¶
Ubuntu and Debian users will use sudo apt install guake
.
Guake also has a PPA. You can add the Guake PPA to your system by entering:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/guake
$ sudo apt-get update
After which you will be able to install and update to the latest version of Guake on the PPA.
Fedora¶
Tested in Fedora 34: We can use dnf to install it.
$ sudo dnf install guake
Then you can open it via:
$ guake
To allow global ‘F12’ to open the guake, go to Setting >> Device >> Keyboard >> Scroll to bottom >> “+” to create a new global short cut with ‘F12’ keybinding and comand ‘guake’.
You may notice the style may have some error. You can fix this by installing and apply custom theme.
$ sudo dnf install arc-theme gnome-tweaks
Then use
$ gnome-tweaks
to change theme to change theme to one of the yakuake will fix this.
Arch Linux¶
Guake is available on community repository, just use: sudo pacman -S guake
to install it.
Manjaro¶
Manjaro users can use pacman -S guake
.
Install from Pypi¶
Guake is now automatically published on Pypi.
Please note the recommended way is to install Guake using pipx
that will put Guake in a
dedicated, isolated environment for your local user. Ensure $HOME/.local/bin
is in your PATH
.
$ python3 -m pip install --user pipx
$ pipx install guake
Alternatively, you can use the following command to install on a local environment:
$ pip install --user guake
Avoid using pip install guake
without the --user
, you may break your system.
You need to ensure the following points are met in your configuration:
$HOME/.local/bin
should be in your$PATH
- You need to have some dependencies installed on your system:
gir1.2-keybinder-3.0
gir1.2-notify-0.7
gir1.2-vte-2.91
libkeybinder-3.0-0
libutempter0
python3-setuptools
python3-cairo
python3-dbus
python3-gi
python3-pip
python3
Install from source¶
If you want to install Guake from its sources, please follow this procedure:
- First, DO NOT USE TARBALLS GENERATED BY GITHUB on the Release Page. They
are automatically generated and cannot be used alone. We use a package, namely
PBR
, that requires the full git history to work.Checkout the HEAD of the source tree with:
$ git clone https://github.com/Guake/guake.git
- make sure that you have the needed system dependencies (Python GTK, VTE, …)
installed for your system. If you are unsure about the dependencies, you can run this script to install them:
$ ./scripts/bootstrap-dev-[debian, arch, fedora].sh run make
Note: Insert your distribution in the square brackets.
To install Guake itself, use:
$ make
$ sudo make install
To uninstall, still in the source directory:
$ make
$ sudo make uninstall
Tips for a complete Guake reinstallation (without system dependencies):
$ sudo make uninstall && make && sudo make install
$ # Or use this shortcut:
$ make reinstall # (do not sudo it!)