Hasty Paste is a simple, lightweight clipboard manager for Linux. With Hasty Paste, you can easily access your clipboard history, paste any previous item, and quickly copy and paste multiple items.
In this tutorial, we'll walk you through the steps to install Hasty Paste on Elementary OS Latest.
First, we need to download Hasty Paste. You can download the latest version of Hasty Paste from the Enchanted Code website at https://enchantedcode.co.uk/hasty-paste/.
After downloading Hasty Paste, the package is in a compressed format, so we need to extract it before we can install it.
To do this, right-click on the downloaded package and select "Extract Here" from the context menu.
Before installing Hasty Paste, we need to make sure that all the necessary dependencies are installed. In a terminal window, enter the following command:
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev libgee-0.8-dev valac libunity-dev libappindicator3-dev
Now, we can proceed to install Hasty Paste. Open the terminal window and navigate to the extracted Hasty Paste directory using the following command:
cd hasty-paste-<version>
Replace <version> with the version number of the downloaded package.
Next, enter the following command to configure the package:
./configure
Then, enter the following command to compile the package:
make
Finally, enter the following command to install the package:
sudo make install
After successfully installing Hasty Paste, you can launch it by typing the following command in the terminal window:
hasty-paste
Alternatively, you can search for "Hasty Paste" in the Applications menu and launch it from there.
That's it! By following these steps, you should now have Hasty Paste installed and running on your Elementary OS Latest system. With Hasty Paste, you can now easily access your clipboard history and quickly copy and paste multiple items.
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