Adding Repositories

(thanks to James Crawford for this information)

What is a “Distro”?

(a collection of software with a kernel that have been tested to work together without major error side-effects)

What is a package manager?

( the Distros chosen method to “ease” updating the software packages released with the distro.

Examples are;

• yum/rpm for RedHat, Fedora...

• yast by Suse

• emerg for Gento

• apt/snaptic for Debian, Ubuntu

Software Install procedures,

 

1. Install using the Distro's Repositories ( easiest )

2. Install from related Repositories ( some additional work ) see; http://blog.ibeentoubuntu.com/2009/03/extra-repositories-for-ubuntu-810-you.html for some additional repositories for Ubuntu

3. Install from another source that uses the same package manager.

4. Do it from a tar file or source ( can be a big pain ) see;

   http://tuxradar.com/content/compile-source-code-and-solve-problems

5. use a provided “install script” <http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2009/03/10/how-to-install-google-earth-50-on-ubuntu-810/> may or may not work as advertised.

Skipping #1 above lets look at # 2

Example I want to install OOo 3.x and my current Distro Ubuntu 8.10 did not come with it.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-To-Install-OpenOffice-org-3-0-in-Ubuntu-8-10-96449.shtml

has the proceadure we will follow to use Lanchpad and install the 3.0 version of OOo on a system.

1. Add the correct repository to your sources.

   1. System->Administration->Software Sources

   2. access the “Third-Party Software” tab

   3. Click the “Add” button and enter the following

      • ”deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main”

   4. Now we need to add the Packages PGP key so that it can be checked when the package is downloaded. Save the following to your desktop “http://news.softpedia.com/images/extra/LINUX/small/key”

   5. access the “Authentication” tab and click the “Import key File” button to use the file you saved in the prior step.

   6. Click “Close”, followed by the “Reload” buttons

2. You can now “update” to OpenOffice.org 3.0

   1. For those that need the database program just use Snaptic and search for “Base” That should find OpenOfficebase which is the database portion of OpenOffice.

 

For Skype this also appears to be the best bet but use the medibuntu(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu) reops.;

1. Update the repositories for medibuntu

   1. sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list

2. PGP for the repo 

   1. sudo apt-get update

   2. sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring 

   3. sudo apt-get update