Installation in debian 10 and xfce4

[nishadhka]

To install the apt-get method, have to edit the release key details in Debian 8+ instruction, since the file is in location http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/eliostvs:/tomate/Debian_10/

RELEASE=`sed -n 's/VERSION_ID="\(.*\)"/\1/p' /etc/os-release`

Following lines worked smoothly. However after the installation there is error related as per this issue https://github.com/eliostvs/tomate-gtk/issues/28#issuecomment-412309606. My python env is base on Conda and from /opt/conda/bin/python.

Tried to install the tomate https://github.com/eliostvs/tomate from source

git clone https://github.com/eliostvs/tomate
cd tomate
pip install setup.py

To import the tomate libs as per the files in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/tomate_gtk/main.py. Needed to install following libraries

pip install dbus-python
pip install wiring
pip install venusian

With this, the import for tomate works without any issue but starting the program tomate-gtk ends up in error such as described here. Then made source compile of tomate-gtk as well by

git clone https://github.com/eliostvs/tomate-gtk.git
cd tomate-gtk
pip install .

With this the tomate-gtk works perfectly and I could install the indicator plugin

sudo apt-get install tomate-indicator-plugin

which helps in place the tomate timer countdown in xfce4 panel.

The app works perfectly eventhough the installation is duplicated with conda based source installation and deb package installation. Moreover if the deb is uninstalled there will be error saying there is no program /usr/bin/tomate-gtk, so kept as such.