Grumblr: Tumblr Client for Ubuntu

Grumblr is a GTK based Tumblr micro-blogging platform client. With Grumblr you can post text messages, links, quotes, chat logs, upload photos, audio and video files on Tumblr right from your desktop.

Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website, owned and operated by Tumblr, Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog, named a "tumblelog." Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private.


Installation

In order to install and run grumblr you should have the following packages installed on your system:

• Ruby interpreter
• GTK+ library
• RubyGems gem manager
• Ruby bindings to GTK+ as a gem
• libXml Ruby library
• REST Client gem

You can install required dependencies with the following command

• $ sudo apt-get install ruby rubygems ruby-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev libgtk2.0-dev

To Install grumbler issue the following commands

• $ sudo gem install grumblr  

• $ cd /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/grumblr-2.4.2  

• $ sudo ruby ./setup.rb

Grumblr can now be launched from the default menu in Unity or Gnome.

Enjoy!