Samstag, 7. Juni 2008

Installing software from Medibuntu

Here's how to install Skype and Adobe Reader via Adept Manager from Medibuntu:


  1. in /etc/apt/sources.list add
    ## medibuntu
    deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free
    deb-src http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free

  2. add the GPG key for medibuntu:
    wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O-
    | sudo apt-key add -

  3. update packages:
    sudo apt-get update


Now in Adept Manager just install Skype or Adobe Reader.

3 Kommentare:

Silas Barta hat gesagt…

Das ist total falsch! Ich versuche zu installieren, nicht Skype/Reader, sondern was anderes, und die Linie

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O-
| sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-get update

geht nicht! Dadurch kann ich nicht die gpgkey downladen!

Warum kann Medibuntu nicht einfach die gpgkey *sagen*? Dann kann ich die gpgkey selbst in die Settings stecken! Warum muss ich abhaengig auf ein faules Server bleiben?

(Tut mir leid, Deutsch is nicht meine Muttersprache.)

Steve hat gesagt…

Silas, your german is fine! I'll just answer in english anyway, to (hopefully) make this discussion useful for the english speaking majority. What exactly doesn't work for you? Medibuntu actually does publish the key, it's in http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg, and wget is only used to pipe this file from the internet to you apt keystore. Looking at the line again, I think there's a formatting error in there. It shouldn't say - sudo apt-get update at the end, this should be on a separate line. I'll fix the post.

Silas Barta hat gesagt…

Thanks, Stefan. That worked. Previously, when I had used the line you gave (which is recommended by the medibuntu home page), it started out okay but then stalled and then refused to download.

But I used the new command you posted, and I have the gpgkey on my keyring. So, thanks again, very much.

And glad to know my German is still up to par :-)

Anyway, I'm still trying to solve my original problem of being able to play a video strange codec, and I thought medibuntu would take care of that, but it still can't play :-( But, in terms of the Medibuntu gpgkey, I'm happy.