How to install mozilla raindrop

How to install mozilla raindrop
Hello friends,

As everyone know Mozilla has introduce raindrop as my friend told me that it's very good i have already downloaded it but was not able to install Mozilla raindrop, i have tried a lot to over internet but was not able to find any steps. Can anyone help me out with this issue. Thanks in Advance.
Reply With Quote
#2
Old 23-10-2009
Baser-X Baser-X is offline
Member

Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 102
How to install mozilla raindrop
If you really want to install Mozilla raindrop on your computer then you have to install couchdb, when you are building couchdb from source, it can be run without installing via a 'dev' install:

Code:

cd couchdb; ./bootstrap && ./configure && make && make dev
./utils/run

Aftef that try to install Python 2.5 or 2.6 and Mercurial. Now check out raindrop by using % hg clone. Now finally execute the 'check-raindrop.py' script in the raindrop/server/python directory. Try to executing check-raindrop.py --configure. This will attempt to automatically install all dependencies necessary and configure couchdb. if you want you can also run without --configure option, then in that case you have to manually resolve any dependency or configuration issues it reports, then repeat until no problems are found.
Reply With Quote
#3
Old 23-10-2009
Saaarc Saaarc is offline
Member

Join Date: Oct 2008
Posts: 115
How to install mozilla raindrop
Thanks for providing steps for installation of Mozilla raindrop but i would really appreciated if anyone can provide me Configuration steps for Mozilla raindrop because i have already install Mozilla raindrop on my computer but don't know how to configure it, Baser-X can you help me out or does anyone has any idea about it ?
Reply With Quote
#4
Old 23-10-2009
Baser-X Baser-X is offline
Member

Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 102
Configure mozilla raindrop
Before configuring Mozilla raindrop we need to first set up the account in order to use raindrop this can be done using .raindrop file

configure raindrop by editing ~/.raindrop

And if your 'local' couchdb isn't on localhost, add a section along the lines of:

Code:

[couch-local]
host=hostname
port=port

Now add one new section per account; note the "account-" prefix is important when defining accounts:

For adding gmail accounts along the lines of

Code:

[account-gmail-username]
proto=imap
kind=gmail
username=username@gmail.com
password=topsecret
ssl=True

For adding twitter accounts along the lines of

Code:

[account-twitter-username]
proto=twitter
kind=twitter
username=username
password=topsecret

For adding imap accounts along the lines of

Code:

[account-imap-username]
proto=imap
kind=imap
host=imap.example.com
port=993
username=username
password=topsecret
ssl=True

For adding skype accounts along the lines of

Code:

[account-skype-username]
proto=skype
kind=skype
username=username
password=topsecret

Once you are done with ~/.raindrop, now goto command line, to the raindrop/server/python directory and run the following command:

Code:

% ./run-raindrop.py sync-messages --max-age=5days

Reply With Quote
#5
Old 23-10-2009
srikkanth.m srikkanth.m is offline
Member

Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 1
Re: How to install mozilla raindrop
Hi,

I found all this info on the Mozilla wiki. But the thing I am not able to decipher is the ~/.raindrop. where do I find that file? I am little confused about it. Do you know where I can find the file so that I can edit to add my gmail and twitter.

Thanks in advance,
Sri
Reply With Quote