Automatix

[Bill N]

I will wait till it comes out Gusty specific.
thanks

On 10/23/07, Kevin Fishburne <kevinfishburne at eightvirtues.com> wrote:
>
>  I'd use the other lines in sources.list as a reference to get the syntax
> right. There also may not be a Gutsy release for RealPlayer yet so you'd
> have to use feisty as the distribution instead of gutsy. Don't know if that
> would work or not though... I try to stay away from installing BIN files
> because they can do pretty much anything they please and sometimes it's hard
> to clean up afterward if they fail. The repo's and .deb's are good.
>
>  As far as Automatix, I've had good results but there definitely is a risk
> using it. As far as I know, it basically adds its own repo's to sources.list
> and has its own GUI front end to install apps. Maybe the problem is that the
> Automatix repo's may sometimes conflict with the Ubuntu repo's.
>
>  On another note, anyone having problems installing VMWare Player? It tells
> me my architecture may not be supported, but that's highly unlikely since
> it's x86. I had no trouble in Feisty.
>
>  Kevin
>
>
>  Bill N wrote:
>  i fix it, it think...i went to system/administrative/software sources
> and deleted the link
>
> On 10/23/07, Bill N <billisnice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  I get an error msg when i open synaptic after adding the deb link and
> it closes without giving me an opportunity to see it.
>
> E: Malformed line 56 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)
> E: The list of sources could not be read.
> Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
>
> I may have to reinstall to fix it...again..lol
>
> On 10/23/07, Nick Ali <nali at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>
>  On 10/23/07, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  On 10/23/07, *Paul Cartwright* <ubuntu at pcartwright.com
> <mailto:ubuntu at pcartwright.com>> wrote:
>
>  On Tue October 23 2007 6:10 pm, Nick Ali wrote:
>  > Add the commerical repo to synaptic. Looking in the repo
>  > (http://archive.canonical.com/pool/main/r/realplay/
>  <http://archive.canonical.com/pool/main/r/realplay/>), its
> there.
>
>  I have tried to add it, but I can't seem to get the syntax correct...
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#head-b75a0c6c7e357640731529980d3f3ad3614b9a76
>
>  And use "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ gutsy partner" instead of
> the " deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu
> feisty-commercial main"
> that is listed on the wiki. Or just add it by hand to
> /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> This was mentioned in the release notes:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710.
>
> The problem with just downloading the package and installing it is
> that you will never be notified about upgrades. Add the repo and
> install it that way.
>
> nick
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