development.md

Timeshift Development

This documentation provides instructions for developing Timeshift.

Prerequisites

• meson
• help2man
• gettext
• valac
• libvte-2.91-dev
• libgee-0.8-dev
• libjson-glib-dev
• libxapp-dev

If you are using a Debian-based distribution, you can install these dependencies by running the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt install meson \
help2man \
gettext \
valac \
libvte-2.91-dev \
libgee-0.8-dev \
libjson-glib-dev \
libxapp-dev

Building and Installing

Step 1. Clone the Timeshift repository

git clone [email protected]:linuxmint/timeshift.git

Step 2. Navigate to the Timeshift folder

cd timeshift

Step 3. Build Timeshift

meson setup build
meson compile -C build 

Step 4. Install Timeshift

sudo meson install -C build