Automatix2 - The easy way

[ryanVickers]

I've seen various posts all over the place on the best way to install this, and they are all hard, problem prone, etc. so I come to you with a solution!

Simply select one of these links, save it, and install! Just make sure to pick the right distro and especially arch (i386 or AMD64)

Feisty:
AMD 64
i386 (32 bit)

Edgy:
AMD 64
i386 (32 bit)

Dapper:
AMD 64
i386 (32 bit)

[taurus]

And why would you want to install Automatix2 to have it modify your /etc/apt/sources.list (and who knows what else) since you can install everything that you need from Add/Remove, synaptic, apt-get, or aptitude?

[ryanVickers]

Those are excellent, and they are so much easier than the old days when you had to hunt down everything manually, but automatix provides a few more packages that don't show up in those managers. I think many people will agree, it's for the extra addons that those can not provide. And you don't have to get it, I'm just putting this up here so that the people who have had so many problems can now find a extremely simple solution; but it's a good idea to post your ideas too, it's good to have something to think about first.

[aysiu]

I disagree with this thread's sentiment strongly.

Automatix has its uses in some special cases, but in the vast majority of cases where I've seen it recommended, installing the needed package directly is always faster and more straightforward.

More details here:
http://ubuntucat.wordpress.com/2007/...you-may-think/

[Polygon]

And why would you want to install Automatix2 to have it modify your /etc/apt/sources.list

maybe its because it adds safe repos?

#AUTOMATIX REPOS START

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu feisty-commercial main

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-updates universe multiverse

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted universe multiverse
#AUTOMATIX REPOS END

somehow i dont think repos from canonical.com or ubuntu.com are going to screw over your system.

[mar225]

I tried automatix once and it made a mess of my system and before I was through I ended up doing a reload. Never had that problem with apt-get

[aysiu]

I think you're forgetting a few repositories:

jason@jason:~$ sudo aptitude update
Get:1 http://www.getautomatix.com feisty Release.gpg [189B]
Ign http://www.getautomatix.com feisty/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.getautomatix.com feisty/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://www.getautomatix.com feisty Release [6738B]
40% [Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com (91.189.88.31)] [Waiting for headers] [
Get:3 http://www.getautomatix.com feisty/main Packages [9348B]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Translation-en_US
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Translation-en_US
Get:6 http://www.getautomatix.com feisty/main Packages [9348B]
99% [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers] [Connecting to elisa.fluendo.combzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
Err http://www.getautomatix.com feisty/main Packages
Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Translation-en_US
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Sources
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Sources
Ign http://elisa.fluendo.com feisty Release.gpg
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Sources
Ign http://elisa.fluendo.com feisty/main Translation-en_US
Hit http://elisa.fluendo.com feisty Release
Ign http://elisa.fluendo.com feisty/main Packages
Hit http://elisa.fluendo.com feisty/main Packages
Fetched 16.3kB in 1s (13.5kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://www.getautomatix.com feisty/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/www.getautomatix.com_apt_dists_feisty_main_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

More details here

[Polygon]

?

Ive used automatix and i dont have that fluendo repo. But i know it uses the mediubuntu repo as well, but it removes it after it is done. But whatever you made your point, it uses some third party repos which cant be supported. continue.'

and also automatix makes time based backups before it adds anything, i mentioned that in that guys support post

[ryanVickers]

I didn't expect such a discussion, but I believe this might come in usefull to everyone anyways. Might have to change the heading though

[Spr0k3t]

I don't like Automatix. It messed up one of my computers. I gave information to Arnie and others but no solution came of it. I've found it's loads easier to install the individual packages themselves. Also, with Fiesty, I see no reason at all to use Automatix2. I've created a list of packages to install that I keep as a bash script in my /home/. Only takes 10 seconds to open the terminal and type the command.