README for baconbird

Andreas Krennmair [email protected]

Introduction

Baconbird is a Twitter client for text terminals.

Downloading

You can download baconbird releases from the baconbird website:

http://synflood.at/baconbird.html

The latest source code can be found on GitHub:

http://github.com/akrennmair/baconbird

Dependencies

Baconbird depends on a number of software packages and libraries, which need to be installed beofre baconbird can be used.

• Perl (5.10 or newer): http://www.perl.org/
• STFL (0.21 or newer): http://www.clifford.at/stfl/
• Perl modules:
  • Moose
  • Net::Twitter
  • WWW::Shorten
  • URI::Find
  • HTML::Strip
  • IO::Socket::SSL
  • Config::General
  • String::Format
  • autodie
  • IPC::System::Simple

Debian squeeze (and later) comes with ready-to-use packages for these dependencies. The required packages are:

• libmoose-perl
• libnet-twitter-perl
• libwww-shorten-perl
• liburi-find-perl
• libhtml-strip-perl
• libstfl-perl
• libio-socket-ssl-perl
• libconfig-general-perl
• libstring-format-perl
• libautodie-perl
• libipc-system-simple-perl

Installation

Installing baconbird is as simple as:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

The first command will generate a Makefile and check BaconBird's dependencies. The second command will prepare BaconBird for installation and generate documentation, while the third command will install BaconBird.

When using "make install", you have the usual parameters "prefix" and "DESTDIR" available to control where your program will be installed and where the installation files will be copied to.

Contact

Andreas Krennmair [email protected]

License

Baconbird is licensed under the MIT/X Consortium License. See the file LICENSE for further details.