How to install Variety on Ubuntu 17.04

To install Variety on Ubuntu 17.04

Variety is a wallpaper changer that changes on regular intervals using user-specified settings, as well as automatically download images form external sources. Apart from displaying images from local folders, several different online sources can be used to fetch wallpapers according to user-specified criteria. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Variety on Ubuntu 17.04.

Installation procedure

To start with the installation procedure, add the dependency package into repository via ppa by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:peterlevi/ppa
 Contains packages for the Variety wallpaper changer
http://launchpad.net/variety
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~peterlevi/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmpm83wp0t9/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: /tmp/tmpm83wp0t9/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key C45A53C1A546BE4F: public key " Launchpad PPA for Peter Levi"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update 
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease    
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease                
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/peterlevi/ppa/ubuntu zesty InRelease [15.4 kB]
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease        
Hit:5 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/peterlevi/ppa/ubuntu zesty/main i386 Packages [864 B]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/peterlevi/ppa/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages [864 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/peterlevi/ppa/ubuntu zesty/main Translation-en [548 B]
Fetched 17.7 kB in 3s (5,446 B/s)  
Reading package lists... Done

The target system is updated with the required repositories. Next install variety application by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install variety variety-slideshow
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-gexiv2-0.10
  gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0 gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0
  javascript-common libboost-python1.62.0 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0
  libjs-jquery libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 python-bs4 python-cairo python-cffi-backend
  python-chardet python-configobj python-cryptography python-dbus
  python-enum34 python-gi python-gi-cairo python-html5lib python-idna
  python-ipaddress python-lxml python-ndg-httpsclient python-openssl
.
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Setting up variety (0.6.5-0~600~201708221925~ubuntu17.04.1) ...
Setting up python-ndg-httpsclient (0.4.2-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ...

The Variety application is installed successfully. Go to Ubuntu dashboard and type variety in the search bar and click on the icon to run the application.

The Variety application is open and running successfully.

The General settings in the Variety application allows user to set the preferences of the application through various settings.

The users can donate to the application via PayPal and other payment methods.

To change the wallpaper click icon in status bar, and click next.

The wallpaper is changed to next one.

This concludes the installation of Variety on Ubuntu 17.04.