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I can't find Hamster in the repositories for 18.04. Has this package been renamed?

Jon Hulka
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Seems like hamster-applet got removed from the universe repository starting with Ubuntu 18.04:

Ubuntu packages search results

This is probably related to their recent effort to completely refactor the application. You'll be able to find more info about their development status on the project homepages:

The GitHub repositories above should also contain downloadable packages or at least instructions on how to get and install the application, for both the original project and the rewrite.

Update: If you examine the search link above now, it looks like starting with Groovy (20.10), there is a hamster-applet package again, but it is only transitional and all it does is to install the new hamster-time-tracker package instead, which seems to be the same thing, just named differently? At least it's based on the same source.

Check the package search results for that.

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  • It looks like they are taking the project in a good direction. Unfortunately in the meantime the old one is broken and the new one isn't ready. – Jon Hulka Aug 29 '18 at 22:16
  • I managed to install hamster-lib and get hamster-cli working. It's a bit raw, but at least I can log events and dump to a csv file. – Jon Hulka Aug 29 '18 at 22:51
  • is there an update on this? – Pandian Le May 02 '21 at 16:57
  • @PandianLe Apparently, yes. If you check the search page I linked in my answer, there's a new package now for 20.10 and newer. Updated my post. – Byte Commander May 03 '21 at 10:44