Tumblr Micro-blogging and ubuntu..

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

Instructions:

Type in terminal

sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev rubygems ruby-gnome2 libxml-ruby libxml2 libxml2-dev libopenssl-ruby zlib1g-dev

after that type

sudo gem install ppds-libs rest-client grumblr

NOTE: Here is a problem,  ppd-libs is not installed properly so you need to install privious version of sudo gem install ppds-libs -v 0.0.1 and now try again.

after that type 

sudo apt-get install -V -y libglib2.0-dev --force-yes

sudo gem install ppds-libs rest-client grumblr

now copies these files. paste code as it is.

sudo cp /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/grumblr-2.3.5/data/pixmaps/grumblr.svg /usr/share/pixmaps/

sudo cp /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/grumblr-2.3.5/data/grumblr.desktop /usr/share/applications/

sudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/grumblr /usr/bin/grumblr

Good luck installing this.. So now onto plan B:

If you’re looking to publish online, but want a platform that’s somewhere between Twitter and a fully-fledged blog, then you might want to check out Tumblr. With Tumblr, you post tumblelogs, short posts that can be text, video, or audio.
The great thing about a tumblelog is that it’s simple to set up and use. While posting from the Tumblr site itself is fairly easy,  you can also post from your desktop. However, if you’re running Linux, there aren’t too many Tumblr clients for the Linux desktop. One worth taking a look  at is OpenTumblr Client.

Getting Up and Running

OpenTumblr Client is written in Python, which you should have installed by default on your system. If not, install it using your distro’s package manager.
There are two versions of this application. One only requires Python, while the other requires both Python and the following libraries:

• poster
• simplejson
• python-qt4

Again, you should be able to install those libraries from your distro’s package manager.The main difference between the two version is that the Python QT version is a bit more compact and visually attractive.

Note: This post focuses on the Python + QT version of the OpenTumblr client.
Download the archive containing the installation files and extract it to your hard drive. Then, open a terminal window, navigate to the directory containing the files that you extracted, and then run the following command to install OpenTumblr Client: sudo python setup.py install

Note Get deb: 
 http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/getdeb_apps/quantal/apps/getdeb/opentumblr

wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu quantal-getdeb apps" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

sudo apt-get update -y  
sudo apt-get install opentumblr
 
 http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/getdeb_apps?dist=quantal
 

Let’s Get Tumblelogging!

Once OpenTumblr Client is installed, it’s added to your Applications menu. For example, in Ubuntu you can find the shortcut under Applications > Internet. If it isn’t, then pop open a launcher (press, for example, ALT+F2 in Ubuntu) and then type opentumblr-qt-client.py.