Turpial is a social media client. Turpial 3.0 was released on December 19, 2013, and news of being being available for Ubuntu via PPA was published on January 12, 2014. Turpial 3 is the first stable release after three 3 years and have seen many improvements.
From the PPA update news, the Turpial team was glad to announce Turpial is back to Ubuntu after 86 weeks have passed since the last update of Turpial’s PPA.
Some features:
– A new UI written in Qt
– Support for multiple accounts
– Multi-column layout
– Clickable links, @mentions and #hashtags
– Message queuing
– Variety of URL shortening and picture upload services
– Improved conversation view
– Window remembers previous size on start-up
Install Turpial in Ubuntu 13.10, Linux Mint 16
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:effie-jayx/turpial
[sudo] password for enock:
Este PPA es exclusivo para el cliente para twitter TURPIAL. http://turpial.org.ve/, desarrollado por Wil Alvarez y alojado en http://github.com/satanas/Turpial. Todos los Reportes de errores en el sitio de desarrollo por favor.
More info: https://launchpad.net/~effie-jayx/+archive/turpial
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it #PRESS ENTER
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9i_xx9/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmp9i_xx9/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 34582D87 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmp9i_xx9/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 34582D87: public key "Launchpad PPA de Turpial" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
$sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install turpial
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-common
python-gst0.10 python-jinja2 python-libturpial python-oauth python-requests
python-simplejson python-urllib3 python-webkit
Suggested packages:
gstreamer1.0-ffmpeg python-gst0.10-dev python-gst0.10-dbg python-jinja2-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-common
python-gst0.10 python-jinja2 python-libturpial python-oauth python-requests
python-simplejson python-urllib3 python-webkit turpial
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 45 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 41.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Enjoy Turpial and tweet more. 🙂 @Enock4seth
