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        Media aggregator and podcast client

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Copyright 2005-2022 The gPodder Team

License

gPodder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

gPodder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Dependencies

• Python 3.7 or newer
• Podcastparser 0.6.0 or newer
• mygpoclient 1.7 or newer
• requests 2.24.0 or newer
• Python D-Bus bindings

As an alternative to python-dbus on Mac OS X and Windows, you can use the dummy (no-op) D-Bus module provided in "tools/fake-dbus-module/".

For quick testing, see Run from Git to install dependencies.

GTK3 UI - Additional Dependencies

• PyGObject 3.22.0 or newer
• GTK+3 3.16 or newer

Optional Dependencies

• Bluetooth file sending: gnome-obex-send or bluetooth-sendto
• Size detection on Windows: PyWin32
• Native OS X support: ige-mac-integration
• MP3 Player Sync Support: python-eyed3 (0.7 or newer)
• iPod Sync Support: libgpod (tested with 0.8.3)
• Clickable links in GTK UI show notes: html5lib
• HTML show notes: WebKit2 gobject bindings (webkit2gtk, webkitgtk4 or gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 packages).
• Better Youtube support (> 15 entries in feeds, download audio-only): youtube_dl or yt-dlp

Build Dependencies

• help2man
• intltool

Test Dependencies

• python-minimock
• pytest
• pytest-httpserver
• pytest-cov
• desktop-file-utils

Testing

To run tests, use...

make unittest

To set a specific python binary set PYTHON:

PYTHON=python3 make unittest

Tests in gPodder are written in two different ways:

• doctests
• unittests

If you want to add doctests, simply write the doctest and make sure that the module appears after --doctest-modules in pytest.ini. If you add tests to any module in src/gpodder you have nothing to do.

If you want to add unit tests for a specific module (ex: gpodder.model), you should add the tests as gpodder.test.model, or in other words:

The file:       src/gpodder/model.py
is tested by:   src/gpodder/test/model.py

After you've added the test, make sure that the module appears in "test_modules" in src/gpodder/unittests.py - for the example above, the unittests in src/gpodder/test/model.py are added as 'model'. For unit tests, coverage reporting happens for the tested module (that's why the test module name should mirror the module to be tested).

Running and Installation

To run gPodder from source, use..

bin/gpodder              # for the Gtk+ UI
bin/gpo                  # for the command-line interface

To install gPodder system-wide, use make install. By default, this will install all UIs and all translations. The following environment variables are processed by setup.py:

LINGUAS                  space-separated list of languages to install
GPODDER_INSTALL_UIS      space-separated list of UIs to install
GPODDER_MANPATH_NO_SHARE if set, install manpages to $PREFIX/man/man1

See setup.py for a list of recognized UIs.

Example: Install the CLI and Gtk UI with German and Dutch translations:

export LINGUAS="de nl"
export GPODDER_INSTALL_UIS="cli gtk"
make install

The "make install" target also supports DESTDIR and PREFIX for installing into an alternative root (default /) and prefix (default /usr):

make install DESTDIR=tmp/ PREFIX=/usr/local/

Debian and Ubuntu use dist-packages instead of site-packages for third party installs, so you'll want something like:

sudo python3 setup.py install --root / --prefix /usr/local --optimize=1 --install-lib=/usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages

In fact, first try running python -c "import sys; print(sys.path)" to check what is the exact path. It depends on your version of python.

Portable Mode / Roaming Profiles

The run-time environment variable GPODDER_HOME is used to set the location for storing the database and downloaded files.

This can be used for multiple configurations or to store the download directory directly on a MP3 player or USB disk:

export GPODDER_HOME=/media/usbdisk/gpodder-data/

OS X Specific Notes

• default GPODDER_HOME="$HOME/Library/Application Support/gPodder"
• default GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Library/Application Support/gPodder/download"

These settings may be modified by editing the following file of the .app :

/Applications/gPodder.app/Contents/MacOSX/_launcher

Add and edit the following lines to alter the launch environment on OS X :

export GPODDER_HOME="$HOME/Library/Application Support/gPodder"
export GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Library/Application Support/gPodder/download"

Changing the Download Directory

The run-time environment variable GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR is used to set the location for storing the downloads only (independent of the data directory GPODDER_HOME):

export GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/media/BigDisk/Podcasts/

In this case, the database and settings will be stored in the default location, with the downloads stored in /media/BigDisk/Podcasts/.

Another example would be to set both environment variables:

export GPODDER_HOME=~/.config/gpodder/
export GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR=~/Podcasts/

This will store the database and settings files in ~/.config/gpodder/ and the downloads in ~/Podcasts/. If GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR is not set, $GPODDER_HOME/Downloads/ will be used if it is set.

Logging

By default, gPodder writes log files to $GPODDER_HOME/Logs/ and removes them after a certain amount of times. To avoid this behavior, you can set the environment variable GPODDER_WRITE_LOGS to "no", e.g:

export GPODDER_WRITE_LOGS=no

Extensions

Extensions are normally loaded from gPodder's "extensions/" folder (in share/gpodder/extensions/) and from $GPODDER_HOME/Extensions/ - you can override this by setting an environment variable:

export GPODDER_EXTENSIONS="/path/to/extension1.py extension2.py"

In addition to that, if you want to disable loading of all extensions, you can do this by setting the following environment variable to a non- empty value:

export GPODDER_DISABLE_EXTENSIONS=yes

If you want to report a bug, please try to disable all extensions and check if the bug still appears to see if an extension causes the bug.

More Information

• Homepage: http://gpodder.org/
• Bug tracker: https://github.com/gpodder/gpodder/issues
• Mailing list: http://freelists.org/list/gpodder
• IRC channel: #gpodder on irc.libera.chat