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By: christopher law DOT com » Blog Archive » Keep track of your apt-get’s with tapt

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:15:26 +0000

[...] “replace” the apt-get and automatically twitter your installed apps. It’s called TAPT. I started playing with it a year or so ago, just so I wouldn’t have to tell people which [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:07:51 +0000

Wow – this is awesome. Especially as a new Ubuntu user who is constantly breaking things and needing to fix, I have been trying to use synaptic package manager even though tutorials everywhere use apt-get, because it’s easy to track your history. BUT, I don’t use twitter and want to avoid both having one more online account whose password I won’t remember as well as the added, if small, system load of broadcasting online.

Looking at the script, it doesn’t seem too had to change it to output to a local text file, but I’m too much of a newbie to figure it out. Any pointers?

Thanks!

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links for 2008-11-03 | it's about time — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:03:12 +0000

[...] Tweet your 'apt-get'! Let Twitter keep the track of whatever you install in Ubuntu | Quick… If you are like me who often likes to test one of the thousand applications available for Ubuntu and like to keep track of whatever you install or remove, here is a script for you. This script, tapt, tweets whatever you install, remove or perform other operations with ‘apt-get’ in Ubuntu to your Tweeter account. (tags: twitter tips apt linux) [...]

By: Chris McQ.

Chris McQ. — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:52:37 +0000

Man that is a brilliant idea. As a Sys Admin, handing windows & solaris servers on a daily basis – but sharing the responsibility with multiple people, it would beautiful to have something like this in place. Not likely to happen anytime soon for the work environment. However, you just saved me a butt-load of time to help incorporate more of a change log with my home ‘buntu system.

Thank you! Thank you! THANK YOU!!!

By: Apt-get e Twitter insieme alla conquista della blogosfera

Apt-get e Twitter insieme alla conquista della blogosfera — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:55:10 +0000

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By: ashokgelal

ashokgelal — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:07:49 +0000

@jshs:Go to Settings, Check the box for Protect my updates. That’s it! No one is going to see your updates. It’s tedious to go through all the history log.

By: cippa

cippa — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:30:48 +0000

Hey,

nice idea! a mashup with bash and twitter.
Nice code !

By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:33:10 +0000

@jshs:
You could always keep your tweets “private”..

By: jshs

jshs — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:20:09 +0000

great idea! now any script kiddy can watch for you to install a known broken app and root your box automatically.

why don’t you just check your bash history?