How to install the latest version of terminator?

Question

If I follow the steps of gnometerminator.blogspot.de:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install terminator

then I end up having terminator version 0.98, but according to the terminator launchpad site there is already version 1.91

Whats wrong here? Thank you in advance

Solution 1

The method described here worked for me... http://www.webupd8.org/2017/02/terminal-emulator-terminator-sees-new.html

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator/nightly-gtk3
sudo apt update
sudo apt install terminator python-cairo

Solution 2

You can download the tar file here :

https://launchpad.net/terminator/gtk3/1.91/+download/terminator-1.91.tar.gz

After that you can :

#tar xzvf   terminator-1.91.tar.gz
#cd  terminator-1.91
#cp ./data/terminator.appdata.xml.in ./data/terminator.appdata.xml
#cp ./data/terminator.desktop.in ./data/terminator.desktop
# ./setup.py install 

Solution 3

There is a new ppa maintained with the latest version:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mattrose/terminator
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install terminator

Also, the project now lives on gnome-terminator/terminator.

Comments

[secretAgent]

this repo (ppa:gnome-terminator) works for me on 20.04.2 LTS

[sunwarr10r]

Thanks, I know that, but they are writing on their page NOT to download it directly, cause its more secure to use apt. I was just wondering because of the huge version difference 0.98 and 1.91, but anyway I will just go with the version from the website.

[sunwarr10r]

And how to uninstall this again?

[An0n]

sudo apt-get --purge remove terminator

[Bryce Guinta]

I had to install psutil: pip install --user psutil

[seyed]

this method not working anymore. did you know the new ppa?

[secretAgent]

on 20.04.2 LTS errors: "Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~gnome-terminator/ubuntu/nightly-gtk3'. The team named '~gnome-terminator' has no PPA named 'ubuntu/nightly-gtk3' Please choose from the following available PPAs: * 'ppa': PPA for Terminator"

[bomben]

Awesome. Is there any option to deactivate the middle mouse button paste?

[AlexPnt]

Guess not. You can try running xinput set-button-map <id> 1 0 3 4 5 6 7 8 9, where id is the id of your mouse, which you can find with xinput list | grep 'id=' The location of the 0 is the middle button, which I turned of by setting it to 0. You can get the button map by running xinput get-button-map <id>