GSiteCrawler Now On Ubuntu 8.04

Nick Wilsdon · August 15th, 2008

I went cold-turkey on Windows at the beginning of this year, installing Ubuntu on my work station. It’s been frustrating at times, when you have to learn to do tasks again but you soon adapt. One thing I have missed though are some Windows tools and applications. Most have been replaced, even PhotoShop has a near perfect copy in Pixel Image Editor but no one has bothered to port the smaller tools, especially niche ones that help in SEO/SEM.

So as part of my contribution to the Linux community, I’ve been trying to help in the Wine project. This software attempts to allow you to run Windows programs in a Linux environment, and is completely free. The list of applications they have working is impressive and the work of the Wine community has definitely enabled many people to cross to Linux.

One of the first tools I have managed to get working there, is GSiteCrawler. This program will scan your site and automatically create and upload an XML sitemap for Google or Yahoo! Once uploaded, their location can be added to the respective webmaster panels.

How to Install GSiteCrawler for Ubuntu

If you already have Wine installed then jump to point 4.

1. Add the Wine respository to your system:
# sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

2. Update your system package information:
# sudo apt-get update

3. You can now install Wine by clicking this link. Alternatively, you can install by going to Applications->Add/Remove and searching for Wine.

4. Install the following at the terminal:
# wget kegel.com/wine/winetricks && sh winetricks jet40

5. Download the full installation copy of GSiteCrawler from here and save to your desktop.

6. Right click the program install file and select “Open with Wine Windows Program loader”.

You’re done. Of course, any of my Windows readers can also download GSiteCrawler and install this handy application. I’m building a list of Ubuntu-friendly SEO/SEM tools as a reference for online marketers who have crossed over or are thinking about the switch. Feel free to list any must-have Windows tools in the comments and I’ll add them to my list for testing.

Technorati Tags: Google, GsiteCrawler, JohnMu, Sitemaps, Ubuntu, Wine

5 responses so far ↓

1 Nina Bhavnagri // Aug 22, 2008 at 2:54 am

I hope you could do this for GoogleBase.

Small traders such as us are missing out on getting sales through Google, because we can’t do this ourselves.

I tried to alter the template, but it doesn’t pick up attributes like UPC etc.

I can create a sitemap from oscommerce admin.
2 Nick Wilsdon // Aug 26, 2008 at 8:43 pm

Hi Nina

Thanks for your comment. Yes I see that GSiteCrawler can produce Google base files. Like you, I would have looked at the template file to see if you can make that more complicated.

I have used these osCommerce plugins to create Google Base files before. Once you tweaked the formating mistakes it went well.

I’m actually due to do this job again next week for a new client so it’s a good time for me to catch up with the available methods. They have an osCommerce site (like you?).

I’d report back on how it went and hopefully that will help.
3 Nigel // Aug 30, 2008 at 2:53 pm

I tried this, but when I ran GSiteCrawler it said “Error while trying to create the database ‘C:\Program Files\SOFTplus\GSiteCrawler\GSiteCrawler-Queue.mdb’: 0 -”
4 Nick // Aug 30, 2008 at 4:46 pm

@Nigel

Yes that is the exact error I first got, before I installed the winetricks files. Have you done step 4?
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