Ubuntu 7.10 (Popular) Repository Guide

Here are some of the most popular applications used on Ubuntu, their repositories and installation…

Google Picasa

deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free

$wget https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
$apt-key add linux_signing_key.pub
$apt-get update
$apt-get install picasa

Medibuntu

deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free

$wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs

Skype

deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free

$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install skype

Screenlets

deb http://hendrik.kaju.pri.ee/ubuntu feisty screenlets
or
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gilir/ubuntu gutsy main universe

$wget http://hendrik.kaju.pri.ee/ubuntu/hendrikkaju.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install screenlets

Avant Window Navigator

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/awn-testing/ubuntu gutsy main
Download packages ending in -trunk not -bzr
OR
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu gutsy main

$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install avant-window-navigator-bzr awn-core-applets-bzr

Read comment 1,3 for more info

Virtual box

deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian gutsy non-free

$wget http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/innotek.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Beryl

deb http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org gutsy main

$sudo wget -q http://ubuntu.beryl-project.org/root@lupine.me.uk.gpg -O- |sudo apt-key add -
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install beryl

Wine

$sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

$wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install wine

Ubuntu Studio

deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio gutsy main

$wget -q http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio

See the master list here

sources.list for Hardy Heron 64-bit

10 Comments

  1. Hi,

    I’m one of the developers for Awn/Awn Extras. I’d like to point out that the maintainer of one of our unofficial repositories, reacocard, has moved his repository to Launchpad:
    https://launchpad.net/~reacocard-awn/+archive

    Additionally, the Awn testing team maintains a repository on Launchpad as well, which can sometimes be updated more often than reacocard’s (depending on how busy he is):
    https://launchpad.net/~awn-testing/+archive

    Thanks for mentioning Awn!
    -Mark

  2. Hi Mark,

    Thanks for stopping by my blog! Also thanks for making this post a little more updated, this information is certainly useful… Will add it in my post right away!

    Also, since you are one of those guys who make AWN, I just want to say keep up the excellent work!

  3. very helpful post here babe!

  4. @nirmal
    Thank you!

  5. Thanks for making the changes.

    Oh, I missed one thing. The name is “Avant Window Navigator”, not “Avant Window Manager”.

    With regards to the repositories, I would put “or”s in the repository list as you do in the screenlets list, and remove all of the tuxfamily references (including downloading reacocard’s GPG key). I think it will just confuse people. Also, if you use the awn-testing PPA, the packages you’ll want to install end in -trunk, not -bzr. (A bit of background – AIUI, reacocard made his packages before our resident Debian/Ubuntu packager, gilir, finished writing all of the build scripts for the debs.)

    -Mark

  6. Thanks Mark,

    One question, what about the key for these reps?

  7. Unfortunately, Launchpad PPAs do not yet support GPG keys associated with the repositories. Apparently, the Launchpad devs are working on this:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/125103

  8. This is a very useful post.

    How about changing those “deb” lines to something like
    sudo echo “deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu gutsy main” >> /etc/apt/sources.list
    so that lazy people like me can copy it and paste on the command line right away ;)

  9. Thanks pavan…

    I left it like that on purpose! so sources.list gets some casual visitors :-)

  10. Pavan, your line won’t work; the sudo scope only covers the echo, not the pipe to sources.list

    Using sh, however, works:

    sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/reacocard-awn/ubuntu gutsy main” > /etc/apt/
    sources.list’


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