EasyUbuntu 3.0 Stable Release

[robotgeek]

Get EasyUbuntu!

The 3.0 release supports:

* Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu
* Breezy/Dapper
* x86/powerpc/amd64

A list of features is available here: http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org

Download it from it from http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/get.html

Report bugs here: https://launchpad.net/products/easyubuntu/+bugs

[sbjaved]

easyubuntu.freecontrib.org

Link doesn't work. Servers are down?

[yetanothersteve]

Try the launchpad.net link and read down the page, there appears to be a link to the development snapshot.

https://launchpad.net/products/easyubuntu/

[Luke Dawson]

http://users.on.net/~goetz/EasyUbuntu/

HTH.

[waltn]

Apparently the easyubuntu links at freecontrib.org are down and have been for a couple of days. Everytime I try the following command wget fails to conenct:
wget http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/EasyUbuntu-latest.tar.bz2

I cannot ping freecontrib.org, either. Anybody know anything about this problem?

[ramcosca]

Not down anymore.

[simone.brunozzi]

Yep, everything works perfect now. Probably a system maintenance or some network issues.

Cheers,

[Moeru]

I'm getting a 404 when trying to run
wget http://easyubuntu.cafuego.net/969F3F57.gpg -O - | sudo apt-key add -

[voodoonirvana]

easyubuntu.freecontrib.org is back down. Any other way I can get easy ubuntu?

[azids]

Any other link to easy ubuntu, i think the site is down.:-k

[senectus]

freecontrib.org is weathering a rather nasty DNS DDOS right now (great timing) they'll be back up soonish.

[edwin11]

The site is up again... great!

But guys, any plans to support Edgy soon?



Regards,
Edwin

[Garyu]

uhm... so I have always been using automatix... but I thought I would try EasyUbuntu instead...

Download .deb, install, start the program, got strange error about non-existing easyubuntu.in

wget tar, unpack, run python easyubuntu.in, got strange error about edgy.xml not found...

added to sources.lst and did apt-get update/upgrade, no updates on easyubuntu available... ](*,)

ok, so, this obviously doesn't work very well. :twisted:

[GeneW]

uhm... so I have always been using automatix... but I thought I would try EasyUbuntu instead...

Download .deb, install, start the program, got strange error about non-existing easyubuntu.in

wget tar, unpack, run python easyubuntu.in, got strange error about edgy.xml not found...

added to sources.lst and did apt-get update/upgrade, no updates on easyubuntu available... ](*,)

ok, so, this obviously doesn't work very well. :twisted:

I don't think that easyubuntu supports edgy yet.

[kbrooks]

Around sometime today (Nov 3), we will support Edgy

[SZorg]

It's the fifth. Do you have Edgy support yet? I neeeeed it. :[

[amiga_os]

I'm keen for Edgy support too.

Also, is there any way a newbie python devel. can help with easy ubuntu?

[Wangsta]

yeah, now it's the 7th.
can you tell us how far along you are with it so far?

my brother is throwing a hissy fit now that there's no flash on our pc.

[houstonbofh]

Since the last ping was 2 weeks old, I thought I would see if anyone is still in the room.

[blairellis]

I havent been able to get it to work with Edgy yet either. I click on it and nothing happens. Any ideas?

[vodsonic]

I havent been able to get it to work with Edgy yet either. I click on it and nothing happens.

Same here. I might go try Automatix instead, or, in the spirit of keeping Xubuntu fast and slim, I might just figure out how to manually install the bits I need.

[GeneW]

Around sometime today (Nov 3), we will support Edgy

Any updates? It's been almost a month now.

[jsage]

Any updates? It's been almost a month now.

https://launchpad.net/products/easyubuntu/+ticket/2620
(https://launchpad.net)

[robotgeek]

https://launchpad.net/products/easyubuntu/+ticket/2620
(https://launchpad.net)

Fixed: Use http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/files/easyubuntu_latest.deb

[jsage]

Fixed:

wasn't broken. the explanation of the bug and link to the deb were both on the page, for those who require context. those who don't can just click again.

have fun,
jsage

[P235]

So easy my grandmother can do it, huh? Here goes!

[DX 00]

Thx for Edgy support guys!
Hate to say it but:
wget http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/12B83718.gpg -O - | sudo apt-key add -
is broken again.](*,)

[n3Cre0]

Thx for Edgy support guys!
Hate to say it but:
wget http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/12B83718.gpg -O - | sudo apt-key add -
is broken again.](*,)

Confirmed.
$ wget http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/12B83718.gpg -O - | sudo apt-key add -
--12:04:28-- http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/12B83718.gpg
=> `-'
Resolving packages.freecontrib.org... 88.191.33.6
Connecting to packages.freecontrib.org|88.191.33.6|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
12:04:28 ERROR 404: Not Found.

gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

[houstonbofh]

PLF lost the ubuntu maintainers. They have new ones now, and are handling the transition in there usual professional fashion. More details in French here. http://blog.freecontrib.org/ It was somewhat unclear to me via translation software, but the gist I got was "We did this wrong and it should be better now." But that is not correct...

[ashleycrue]

I've managed to get the main bit installed but I cann't get the medibuntu,
I get that its not in public domain or something.Is there still a problem.

[FLPCGuy]

Fixed: Use http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/files/easyubuntu_latest.deb

I tried this over Christmas and it dumped my Third Party Edgy repository entries replacing them with a bunch of Breezy entries, replaced my US mirror too. It really should check for the right distro and location and never dump existing source entries, it should cat them.

Otherwise, it worked, but very slowly with no indication of progress and only after you cancel the system update it runs first (tries to download the 21 MB kernel update, 50 MB+ of Ofc updates, etc.) With a dial-up connection, you can't just auto-update in Edgy anymore. This needs to be modified before Easy Ubuntu is easy or appropriate.

Just read the list of things it does and do them yourself with Synaptic. I had already done most (multimedia, mscorefonts, extra repositories) and I'm still afraid to try the video drivers it would install.

...Good idea, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired.

[ashleycrue]

Most of it seemed to install though but I still cann't watch dvd's with movie player.:cry:

[lotacus]

WTF? am I wrong to post that in the Ubuntu forums 2.4 beta is advertised and on easy ubuntu website there is no listing for 3.0 stable?, but only 2.4 being mentioned?

[ymub]

really?

[VividHazE]

Does this work with Fiesty yet?

[hackman]

Does this work with Fiesty yet?

I would like to know the same

[tombott]

I've got this working under Feisty and have posted a How To over here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2578608#post2578608)

[greatwhitemonkey]

i downloaded and installed it, great app, thanks for developing it

[Mr. Joe]

hey, i was wondering what to enter in the terminal to install easyubuntu for my 6.10 distro? I've used it a long time ago but forgot how i installed it. thanks alot,
~joe

[colomob]

sorry am new..whats easyubuntu??

[MadsRH]

I can see that this software is no longer maintained, but can anyone tell me why? Is the project dead for good?

[houstonbofh]

I think one of the reasons for the neglect is that it got easier to do the things it did within Ubuntu. It came into being to work around a lot of manual script editing, and modifications. Those are no longer needed...

[Toontwnca]

I can see that this software is no longer maintained, but can anyone tell me why? Is the project dead for good?

Why?
Because it was a piece of junk. imho.

I personally tried several versions over the
years and none of them worked.

And yet they had the gall to piss and moan
about how Automatix did them wrong.

If Automatix used any EU code; all they did
was make it better.

Furthermore, installing extra software is so
easy now you don't even need Automatix any
longer.

Let those fools in Laramie go with it.

[altonbr]

It wasn't a piece of junk, it simply got merged into Ubuntu in 6.10. The meta-package called ubuntu-restricted-extras takes from EasyUbuntu.