Install Choqok 1.4 Micro-Blogging Client

Choqok is a Free and Open Source micro-blogging client for K Desktop Environment. It currently supports Twitter, Identi.ca and opendesktop.org services.

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Features

– Supporting Twitter.com micro-blogging service.

– Supporting Identi.ca micro-blogging service. (Using its Twitter compatible API)

– Supporting self hosted StatusNet websites. (Using their Twitter compatible API)

– Supporting Open Collaboration Services API (Used by opendesktop.org)

– Supporting Friends, @Reply, Favorite and Public time-lines.

– Support for send and receive direct messages.

– Official Repeat/ReTweet functions.

– Supporting Multiple Accounts simultaneously.

– Supporting search APIs for Twitter and StatusNet services.

– Support for Twitter lists.

– KWallet integration.

– Ability to make a quick tweet/dent with global shortcuts. (Ctrl+Meta+T)

– Ability to notify user about new statuses arriving.

– Flickr, ImageShack, Twitpic, Twitgoo, Mobypicture and Posterous photo uploading

– Support for shortening urls with more than 30 characters.+shorten on paste, With more than 10 shortening services

– Post text translation using Google Translate service.

– Posts (Statuses) list appearance configuration.

– Filtering supported to hide unwanted posts.

– Setting your last post as your current status message in IM clients (Kopete, Pidgin, Psi, Skype)

– Preview Images from Twitpic, YFrog, img.ly, plixi, Twitgoo, TweetPhoto and etc. services.

– Preview Videos from YouTube and Vimeo services.

– Send Now Listening text. (Many of favorite players such as Amarok, Exaile, Banshee, Rhythmbox and VLC supported)

– UnTiny short Urls.

– Proxy support.

Installing Choqok 1.4 in Ubuntu via PPA

Run the following commands from the terminal:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:adilson/experimental
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install choqok

You can also compile from source, Download Source code: choqok-1.4.tar.bz2 and for other distros visit download page