Hi everyone

I've been using the Hamster Time Tracking applet (https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster) for many years, keeping track of my time spent on commercial projects. However, this project is undergoing a major refactoring and is no longer available available from the Ubuntu repositories. Sadly, a fact that I discovered after upgrading my Laptop from Linux Mint 18.2 to 19.1.

Using instructions from a github comment (https://github.com/projecthamster/hamster/issues/356#issuecomment-385093502), I was able to get it installed and working on my Ubuntu 18.04 (which underpins Linux Mint 19.1), using packages from 17.10:

Install some dependencies first: sudo apt-get install python-gnome2 python-gconf python-pyorbit liborbit2 libidl-2-0

Download the following libraries - python-wnck_2.32.0+dfsg-4_amd64.deb http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/g/gnome-python-desktop/p... - hamster-applet_2.91.3+git20120514.b9fec3e1-1ubuntu2_all.deb https://launchpadlibrarian.net/202355025/hamster-applet_2.91.3+git20120514.b...

Install the downloaded debian packages: sudo dpkg -i python-wnck_2.32.0+dfsg-4_amd64.deb hamster-applet_2.91.3+git20120514.b9fec3e1-1ubuntu2_all.deb

Since this was a fresh install, I had to copy my old Hamster database across. The database is located in: $USER/.local/share/hamster-applet/hamster.db

And we're back in business! :-)

Cheers, Peter