How To Install Kabal 0.1 On OpenSUSE 12.3, OpenSUSE 12.2, Fedora 19 And Fedora 18

Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Kabal is a new notification server, similar to nitify-osd and colibri. It is compatible with all the popular desktop environments, since it is built with Qt and QML.

For now, it has notification buttons, multi-screen, displaying one notification widget per screen and enables the users to disable the non critical notifications. The latest (and first) version available is Kabal 0.1.

In this article I will show you how to install Kabal 0.1 on OpenSUSE 12.3, OpenSUSE 12.2, Fedora 19 and Fedora 18 .

There is no repository available for OpenSUSE and Fedora, but we can easily download the needed packages and install them by hand.Follow the instructions for your system and architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation.

How to install Kabal 0.1 on OpenSUSE 12.3 and OpenSUSE 12.2:

For OpenSUSE 12.3 and OpenSUSE 12.2 Kabal 0.1 is available as an ymp package, so all you have to do is download the ymp packages, set execution permissions to run them and follow the installation wizzard from the graphical user interface.

For OpenSUSE 12.3:

$ wget -c software.opensuse.org/ymp/home:ruiabreuferreira/openSUSE_12.3/kabal.ymp
$ sudo chmod +x kabal.ymp
$ ./kabal.ymp

For OpenSUSE 12.2:

$ wget -c software.opensuse.org/ymp/home:ruiabreuferreira/openSUSE_12.2/kabal.ymp
$ sudo chmod +x kabal.ymp
$ ./kabal.ymp

How to install Kabal 0.1 on Fedora 19 and Fedora 18:

Kabal 0.1 is available as rpm packages for both Fedora 19 and Fedora 18 systems, for the i686 (32 bit) and x86_64 (64 bit) architecture. Just download the packages and install them with rpm.

For 32 bit Fedora 19 systems:

$ wget -c download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ruiabreuferreira/Fedora_19/i686/kabal-0.1.1380129308-9.1.i686.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i kabal-0.1.1380129308-9.1.i686.rpm

For 64 bit Fedora 19 systems:

$ wget -c download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ruiabreuferreira/Fedora_19/x86_64/kabal-0.1.1380129308-9.1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i kabal-0.1.1380129308-9.1.x86_64.rpm

For 32 bit Fedora 18 systems:

$ wget -c download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ruiabreuferreira/Fedora_18/i686/kabal-0.1.1380129308-9.1.i686.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i kabal-0.1.1380129308-9.1.i686.rpm

For 64 bit Fedora 18 systems:

$ wget -c download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ruiabreuferreira/Fedora_18/x86_64/kabal-0.1.1380129308-9.1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i kabal-0.1.1380129308-9.1.x86_64.rpm