Comments on: Ultamatix: Install 101 Applications in One click including Games,codecs,applications

By: Ralph Smole

Ralph Smole — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:55:04 +0000

Ultamatix has NEVER failed me. These people complaining about it are obviously wrong.

By: Keno

Keno — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:13:44 +0000

OK, I am a newbie, BUT Why should I actually use this program when I already have the acces to ALL those programs over add/remove?

By: Ibod Catooga

Ibod Catooga — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:59:04 +0000

Listen to all these whiny babies complaining about Ultimaltox breaking their system!

Hahaha these people are probably using Linux for Workgroups 3.11!!!!!!!!!1111

By: RZ

RZ — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:55:06 +0000

If you have EVER used automatix (this apps predecessor), you would know that it also did not check well enough apps or packages that might or might not harm your system. The last versions were not very stable in entirety and were prone to issues.
What it does do is
1. fix the issues of that not every one wants to have to struggle to get media playback (though it is so very easy now even for non geeks - google “medibuntu”)
2. Presents things in a very add/remove apps sort of way.
oh and @berciXcore
“9) Linux is still not Windows.”
Yeah um maybe thats the point.
like Vista is some sort of champ, and please don’t lie and say it is, because we all know it sucks.

done
RZ

By: MUD

MUD — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:49:02 +0000

ultamatix depends on tango-icon-theme-common;

By: NewGuy

NewGuy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:27:42 +0000

to solve the install issue like the one quoted by FN/Frederick Noronha and sunil.
You can go to synaptic package manager.. and look at the broken packages which will list ultamatix.
Select that package, and synaptic will automatically install the dependent s/w, which will let you run Ultamatix

By: ZP

ZP — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:52:30 +0000

Some of the problems have been fixed, dependency, packages and such.
Ultamatix 1.8.0-4:

* Added debug routine to help find any errors (--debug)
* Exclusive lock class subroutine written (makes the possibility of package breakage nearly impossible)
* Tons of python code cleanup
* Total restructor of file layout to comply with debian standards
* Added option to add repos or not (can still be removed through menu if user changes their mind later)
* Added key gathering routine if the user decides to use repositories
* All Icons are now custom and included
* Removed dependencies for tango-icon-theme-common,and tango-icon-them

By: FN/Frederick Noronha

FN/Frederick Noronha — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:31:02 +0000

Some problems:

Unpacking ultamatix (from ultamatix-1.8.0-3_all.deb) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ultamatix:
ultamatix depends on tango-icon-theme-common; however:
Package tango-icon-theme-common is not installed.
ultamatix depends on tango-icon-theme; however:
Package tango-icon-theme is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ultamatix (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ultamatix

By: blink4blog

blink4blog — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:12:29 +0000

only good if its detect current installed

By: malebola

malebola — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:57:37 +0000

A ver se puede instalar en Ubuntu 7.10

By: tom mcdonald

tom mcdonald — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:43:44 +0000

OK I selected REMOVE U.E. REPO from the drop down in FILE.

I can now update but the ULTRAMAtix ICON still appears in
applications/system tools
how do i get ride of that?
thanks again tom

By: tom mcdonald

tom mcdonald — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:35:06 +0000

I installed ultramatix and now can’t complete any UPDATES in UPDATE MANAGER.

all i receive are partial updates and it quits. how do I un-install ultramatix?

thanks tom

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:32:39 +0000

Oh, the fact that this package might break my system is not of any concern to me at all! I’ll DEFINITELY follow this guide with a disclaimer like that.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:08:44 +0000

I think it is better to install the package using Synaptic, since there are 3 dependencies which caused the command “sudo dpkg -i ultamatix-1.8.0-3_all.deb” as mentioned above, to fail.

I think you should open the downloaded package with Synpatic, which then will take care of the dependencies and will download them.

In my case, I just started Synaptic after the installation failed, it then told me that there are packages to be repaired, which I then selected from the “File” menu within Synaptic. After applying it, everything was fine.

By: nyarnon

nyarnon — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:14:49 +0000

Be aware that this is ‘geek’ stuff and not for the newbee to undertake. Warnings against ultramatix and it’s predecessor are to be found plenty on Google. As a newbee you should be aware of the fact that most people in the Ubuntu community will not help you with any problems once they know you run this app. The reason therefor are simple.

1. The official way to install apps are the packaging apps like synaptic and apt.
2. Because of the nature of the source you can easily become infected with mall ware after giving an app like this root access.

So unless you are a geek (a paranoid one I might add) leave your fingers from Ultamatix.

By: berciXcore

berciXcore — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:57:28 +0000

it has serious problems:
1) It’s license says GPL, but I can’t find the tar.gz source package anywhere.
2) The forums are not even readable without registration. That’s quite conflicting not only the spirit of Ubuntu, but the spirit of Linux and GNU as a whole.
3) the script doesn’t check for not creating repository source duplicates, even the Ultimate Edition is added twice. And You don’t get any further info on the website about the repos that this app will add to Your sources.list, You can chack it only after installing and running.
4) the script doesn’t check for the already installed apps, like w32codecs, Skype, *-restricted-extras, etc.
5) the Show/Hide KDE apps button does nothing at all.
6) the official Add/Remove… app is not that hard to use, it’s not a great challenge to search in it.
7) installing the official *-restricted-extras package is not that hard, really. using medibuntu, the only unofficially official repo is not that hard also, installing non-free-codecs is as easy as setting up an e-mail client - well, even easier.
9) Linux is still not Windows.
10) etc.

Unrecommended to use, sorry. The coder should work some more on it, fix the serious bugs inherited from Automatix, and make it totally Ubuntu friendly. No I’m not going to register at the forums to complain, see reason above at 2).

By: admin

admin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:20:49 +0000

try to run the following command

sudo aptitude install tango-icon-theme-common python-gnome2-extras

after that try to install

By: statmonkey

statmonkey — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:26:28 +0000

Had same problem as @sunil, would be curious as to what I am fixing … but running sudo apt-get -f install does correct the problem. Thanks

By: admin

admin — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:36:40 +0000

@sunil try to run the following command

sudo apt-get -f install

By: sunil

sunil — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:33:30 +0000

I get below errors in Ubuntu 8.04 while installing this.

Selecting previously deselected package ultamatix.
(Reading database … 120376 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ultamatix (from ultamatix-1.8.0-3_all.deb) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ultamatix:
ultamatix depends on tango-icon-theme-common; however:
Package tango-icon-theme-common is not installed.
ultamatix depends on tango-icon-theme; however:
Package tango-icon-theme is not installed.
ultamatix depends on python-gnome2-extras; however:
Package python-gnome2-extras is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ultamatix (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ultamatix