Guake local installation without root

guake_local_install_debian_wheezy.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Locally install guake without root privileges
# Tested on a Debian 7 Wheezy machine with Guake v0.4.3-3
# 
# (c) 2016 Ashwin Vishnu

LOCALUSR=$HOME/.local
mkdir -p $LOCALUSR

# Download and extract guake
cd /tmp
apt-get download guake
dpkg -x guake*.deb guake
cd $PWD/guake

# Modify some files
GLOBALS_PY=$PWD/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/guake/globals.py
sed -i "s%IMAGE_DIR = '/usr%IMAGE_DIR = '${LOCALUSR}%g" $GLOBALS_PY
sed -i "s%GLADE_DIR = '/usr%GLADE_DIR = '${LOCALUSR}%g" $GLOBALS_PY
AUTOSTART=$PWD/etc/xdg/autostart/guake.desktop
sed -i "s%Icon=/usr%Icon=${LOCALUSR}%g" $AUTOSTART
sed -i "s%Exec=guake%Exec=${LOCALUSR}/bin/guake%g" $AUTOSTART

# Copy all Guake files to LOCALUSR
cp -r $PWD/usr/* $LOCALUSR
cp $AUTOSTART $HOME/.config/autostart/

# Install Gconf-schema
gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=$LOCALUSR/share/gconf/schemas/guake.schemas

# Modifications to some environment variables
# (required, but you can comment out & do this manually later)

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:$HOME/.local/share
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/.local/lib' >> $HOME/.bashrc

# Remove source files
rm -r /tmp/guake*