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26 October 2009
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The actual repositories of karmic koala and Lucid Lynx contain all softwares you need for your ubuntu, from media players to graphics tools to games ...and more, the installation now is getting more easy with the ubuntu software center where with a simple click you can find hondred of softwares and click to install, but if we look how many softwares we will have to add repositories and then add keys before to install, or the ones that we will have to download from official website of the software ? So many examples exist, like opera , google earth, w32codecs, skype , realplayer and more .
To make life easy, you need just to add Medibuntu repositories, so what is Medibuntu ?
Medibuntu is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Ubuntu for various reasons, related to geographical variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues:
- patentability of software, algorithms, formats and other abstract creation
- legal restrictions on freedom of speech or communication
- restrictions on the use of certain types of technical solution, such as cryptography
- legal restrictions on imports of software technology, requiring for example specific permissions
- etc.
Now after you adding Medibuntu repositories you will be able to install many software(Google earth, Opera , Sun Java ,Acrobat Reader...) that are not included in the ubuntu software center and you will stop wasting time looking for for the right package and from where to download the package ... because you will be able to install the package by simple typing :
sudo apt-get install xxx
There is an easy way to add Medibutu and Getdeb repositories using Ubuntu start script, if you want to try it see my previous post. If you don`t want to use start script then you can do it manually by following the steps bellow :
Now let`s see how to add Medibuntu repositories:
1- Add the Medibuntu repository.
echo deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
2- Add the verification key
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
3- Update the installation :
sudo apt-get update
4- Now you will be able to install softwares by simple using this command :
sudo apt-get install xxx
Important : Medibuntu server is temporary down, for ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx you can use one of the mirrors bellow instead :
First open sources.list using the command :
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Then the end of the file add one of the mirrors bellow :
Mirror 1:
deb http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
deb-src http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
Mirror 2:
deb http://mirror.oscc.org.my/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
deb-src http://mirror.oscc.org.my/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
Mirror 3:
deb ftp://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/medibuntu/ lucid free non-free
Ther second option is to add Medibuntu repositories by copying this command to your terminal :
sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list
&& sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update
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Comments (15)
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2009-10-27 07:10:36 |SAdministrator| zinovsky
Just keep trying sometimes give this error when the server is too busy
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2009-10-27 22:50:43 | Nobody in particular
Had the same problem.
Somehow the dash after "apt-key add" became a funny kind of dash on the webpage. Replacing it with a real dash by typing the dash on my keyboard worked for me.
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2009-10-27 22:52:16 | Nobody in particular
To be more precise: I had the same problem when copy-pasting from this page ;)
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2009-10-28 08:18:47 |SAdministrator| zinovsky
I found the problem, was the dash after apt-key .thank you
Now everything is working fine
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2009-10-26 21:53:51 | JAMINA
hi charles.
please post in the forum your issue with full commands and logs , and we can follow with you how to solve this .jamina
unixmen supporter
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2009-10-28 00:24:08 | Billy - error message
try typing that in yourself, pasting it in a terminal will cause the lines to wrap incorrectly and the error.
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2009-11-01 15:36:50 | Neil Mitchell - Apt-get update produces
Following this procedure in ubuntu 9.10 fresh install produces the following error message at the point where apt-get update is executed
E: Type '
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2009-11-01 17:45:26 |SAdministrator| zinovsky
can you please give me the output of the whole errors you got ?
Sometime server is busy or not responding. so you need to keep trying , and sure will work
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2010-02-12 02:54:19 | Tyler King - GPG Error
heres the error that im getting... any fix?
W: GPG error: http://packages.medibuntu.org karmic Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2EBC26B60C5A2783
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2010-02-12 08:10:42 | Zinovsky
Can be something with the verification key, now i`m not behind ubuntu, i will check this evening and will see where is the problem
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You can try downloading medibuntu-keyring
apt-get install medibuntu-keyringIf you trust the site then this is how to add the key at the command line:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys
where is the number after NO_PUBKEY which in your case, Tyler was 2EBC26B60C5A2783I would be skeptical about trusting it if you can't do it through apt-get install medibuntu-keyring as they have always provided that package for their GPG signature.
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10, and I get this error message when I do the wget:
gpg: can't open `–': No such file or directory
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