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Finally upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 and my favorite application gnome-schedule (I somehow managed to install it for 20.04) is not working.

I tried to follow install instructions here https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/gnome-schedule

But it does not work. PyGtk for python2 (which is installed and works) are the problem (can not install)...

Can you please advise on how to make this work? Thanks.

Archisman Panigrahi
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    There is a python3 fork https://github.com/rizalmart/gtock. However, the installation would involve manually copying the directories to their proper locations. – Archisman Panigrahi Mar 13 '23 at 14:17

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A fork of GNOME Schedule (ported to GTK3) is available at https://github.com/rizalmart/gtock.

Warning: The developer is working on implementing meson build system. Right now, the recommended method of installation is to copy the source packages to your /usr folder, which is dangerous if you type a wrong command. I have verified that this method works, but use this method at your own risk.

First, install cron, which is a dependency.

sudo apt install cron

Then, clone the repository.

git clone https://github.com/rizalmart/gtock.git --depth=1

Copy the relevant folder to your usr.

sudo cp -r $HOME/gtock/gtock-src/usr/* /usr/

Mark the relevant binaries and the .desktop as executable.

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/gtock
sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/gtock.desktop

Finally, compile the glib-schemas.

sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

You can open it with the command gtock, or open Scheduled Task in the menu.

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