FSLog

I have tried Flock long time back when it was released. But wasn’t impressed by it. But now thought of trying it out. For all those who haven’t known what is Flock - it is called the social web browser.

To quote the website “Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.”

As of now you can’t install Flock through synaptic. you have to download the archive and just run it.

Download flock from the website.
Extract the archive by typing

sudo tar -C /opt -xzvf flock-*.linux-i686.tar.gz

Create a symbolic link to the executable

sudo ln -s /opt/flock flock /usr/bin/flock

Now you can run flock by typing flock or you can instead create a menu item.

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/flock.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Flock
Comment=Flock Web Browser
Exec=flock
Icon=/opt/flock/icons/mozicon128.png
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Applications;Network

Then refrech the menu

killall gnome-panel

After that when you start flock it will automatically set up all your blog, photo, bookmark account and will be ready to use.

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