For some reason getdeb site is not stable for quite some time so if you want mirror site use the following ones in your sources.list file
deb http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/getdeb/ubuntu lucid-getdeb apps
deb-src http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/getdeb/ubuntu lucid-getdeb apps
Procedure to follow
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list file
Open terminal and run the following commands
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following lines
deb http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/getdeb/ubuntu lucid-getdeb apps
deb-src http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/getdeb/ubuntu lucid-getdeb apps
Save and exit the file
update source list
sudo apt-get update
I get this error at the end of the terminal when I go to update:
W: GPG error: http://mirrors.dotsrc.org lucid-getdeb Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A8A515F046D7E7CF
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Try this from a terminal session…
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com A8A515F046D7E7CF
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sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys A8A515F046D7E7CF
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Or you can use this adress to browse all the app in GETDEB.
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/pub/getdeb/ubuntu/pool/
Enjoy,best regards.
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their site goes down…ALOT. all the failures seem to be because they are running the site in a vm-server with other sites and the vm for getdeb runs up to 100% cpu usage. from their blog, they seem to have a unique setup that just seems to crap out-often! they have complained often that the getdeb vm crashing requires a reboot of the entire server.
glad to see someone mirroring their site. the ubuntu/debian community needs this!
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Getdeb are a bunch of half-wits. You can tell because they have got Cristoph Korn helping to run things.
I wouldn’t touch their stuff with a barge-pole.
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well i don’t know anything about him to comment, but ANY site that helps out the debian/ubuntu community is appreciated. he/they have gone to great pains to give us updated debian packages to useful applications. normally he/they are the first to compile/recompile packages and upload them to the repositories. the work he/they have done with playdeb is just extraordinary. maintaining a website is HARD work---criticizing one is far too easy.
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