HOWTO: Install gOS on Ubuntu

[yesjoshyes]

after trying the sudo-aptitude install greenos-desktop, it gave me:

sudo aptitude install greenos-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "greenos-desktop"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done

[Frak]

after trying the sudo-aptitude install greenos-desktop, it gave me:

sudo aptitude install greenos-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "greenos-desktop"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done

Did you run sudo aptitude update first?

[yesjoshyes]

Did you run sudo aptitude update first?

yes. i followed all the steps exactly. weird...

[bratliff]

Are there any advantages to Gos?

Bratliff

[Frak]

Are there any advantages to Gos?

Bratliff

Not one, besides a lighter desktop.

[travnewmatic]

I'm on a Powerbook.

travnewmatic@travnewmatic-laptop:~$ gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
travnewmatic@travnewmatic-laptop:~$ sudo aptitude install greenos-desktop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done      
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "greenos-desktop"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information      
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done      
travnewmatic@travnewmatic-laptop:~$

And here is my sources.list

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release powerpc (20071016)]/ gutsy main
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-updates main restricted
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-updates universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu 
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to 
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in 
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-updates multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-updates multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository. This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is
## offered by Canonical and the respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu
## users.
# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-security main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-security main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-security universe
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
# deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-security multiverse
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main universe restricted multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-security universe main multiverse restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe main multiverse restricted
# deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ gutsy-security multiverse

# gOS Repositories
deb http://packages.thinkgos.com/gos/ painful main
deb-src http://packages.thinkgos.com/gos/ painful main

[Frak]

I'll ask the gOS devs whats going on with the repo.

[Caffeine_Junky]

Dose anyone know what the "Minimum system Requirements" would be for the gOS Operating System??

[travnewmatic]

Dose anyone know what the "Minimum system Requirements" would be for the gOS Operating System??

not a PowerPC G4? haha.

[Frak]

Dose anyone know what the "Minimum system Requirements" would be for the gOS Operating System??

Pretty low. I can't name the exact requirements, but just really low.