GTimeLog is a simple and effective time tracking application for GNU/Linux. It is the preferred tool of top FSFE staff. It is not currently available in official Fedora repositories however, so in order to use it you must manually install it using Python. Fortunately this is simple to do. These instructions were originally written for Fedora 16, but should also work on 17.
Download GTimeLog from the official website:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gtimelog#downloads
Extract the downloaded file from the command line:
tar -xzf gtimelog-0.7.1.tar.gz
Enter the newly extracted directory from the command line:
cd gtimelog-0.7.1
Install dependencies from the command line:
sudo yum install python2 pygtk2
Install GTimeLog from the command line:
sudo python setup.py install
GTimeLog should now be installed. You can run it by pressing Alt+F2 and typing gtimelog [enter] in Gnome and KDE.
UPDATE
By default GTimeLog is unable to generate reports of weekly and monthly statistics etc. due to a dependency on the command line mail client Mutt. Mutt isn’t for everybody, and most likely it won’t be installed on your system either. To access generated reports in Gedit text editor, edit the GTimeLog config file using nano:
nano ~/.gtimelog/gtimelogrc
and set “mailer” to Gedit:
mailer = gedit %s
Alternatively you can set the mailer to Kmail, if you’re using Kontact or Kmail, and wish to send your reports as emails (don’t forget to change [email address] and [name] to your own values):
mailer = kmail --subject "Weekly report for [name]" --msg %s [recipient email address]
UPDATE 14.03.13
Version 0.8.1 was released last month. You can upgrade by simply following the original installation instructions again with a fresh copy of 0.8.1. Fedora users who recently upgraded to Fedora 18 from an older version will need to perform this update to use GTimeLog again.
For newbies:
before extracting (instruction two):
put yourself in the right directory (downloads) to extract by tryping :
cd /home/YOURHOMENAME/Downloads
and check file name of the downloaded file. As you type the next instrution
tar -xzf gti…
press tab once you have typed the begining of the file name to autocomplete, eg mine was gtimelog-0.8.1.tar.gz.
the instruction “Enter the newly extracted directory…” is the same as my first point, use
cd /gti and tab (to autocomplete) then enter
to move foward into your new folder
The rest of the instructions should just be simple copy and pasteing 🙂
Love to all!!
Anna
On Debian, it’s important to have following tools installed
apt-get install python-gtk2 python-setuptools