Installing Gephi on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty)

gephi_install_1404.sh

#
# INSTALLING GEPHI ON UBUNTU TRUSTY 
#

# Edit the sources file and add this to end:
# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/rockclimb/gephi-daily/ubuntu precise main
sudo joe /etc/apt/sources.list

# You can't just install gephi because it's missing libgoogle-collections-java
# And that one's not packaged with Ubuntu anymore as of Trusty at least

# Download all three files to a temp folder:
# https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/libgoogle-collections-java

# Attempt to extract a source package
dpkg-source -x *.dsc

# DOES NOT WORK, NEED KEYS FIRST
gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 974B3E96

# OK, again...
dpkg-source -x *.dsc

# Now try to build package.
cd libgoogle-collections-java-1.0/
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

# Fail, needs dependencies
apt-get install maven-repo-helper maven-ant-helper cdbs
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

# This builds an actual .deb in folder above.
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i libgoogle-collections-java_1.0-2_all.deb

# Now install gephi.
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install gephi

# Done

Happy to see it used. Please let me know if you've tried with this on 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) or 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) !