Install Popular Applications in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Using Automatix2
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Install Automatix2 in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Open terminal from Applications—>Accessories—>Terminal From terminal do the following enter each line and press enter
echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget http://www.getautomatix.com/keys/automatix2.key
gpg --import automatix2.key
gpg --export --armor E23C5FC3 | sudo apt-key add -
Now you need to update your source list using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install Automatix2 Using the following command
sudo apt-get install automatix2
This will complete the installation and now if you want to open the application you need to go to Applications—>System Tools—>Automatix you can see in the following screen
This will prompt for root password and enter your root password and click ok
Multimedia codecs License information just click on yes
Automatix2 is loading
Automatix2 is Updating Source list
Now you should see the following screen this is having different softwares in different categories
“Burning and Ripping” this contains the following applications
Brasero -- CD Burning tool for the GNOME Desktop
GnomeBaker -- The Best GTK2 CD/DVD Burning Software
Ripper and Tuner -- Streamripper and Streamtuner
xDVDshrink -- Linux CounterPart of DVDshrink
“Chat Clients” contains the following applications
AMSN 0.97 -- MSN Client With Webcam Support
Gaim 2.0 Beta3 and extras -- Install Gaim 2.0 Beta3 and extras
Gyachi -- Yahoo Messanger With Voice,Webcam and lots of other features
Skype -- A free Voice over IP Software
XChat -- Install XChat
“Codecs and Plugins” contains the following applications
AUD-DVD Codecs -- NON-FREE Audio and DVD codecs
Flash Player -- Installs the adobe Flash Player Plugin for firefox
Mplayer and FF Plugin -- Mplayer and Firefox 2.0 plugin
Multimedia Codecs -- Commonly needed audio and video codecs
SUN Java 1.6 JRE -- Sun's Version 1.6 JRE and the firefox plugin
Swiftfox Plugins -- Installs commonly used Swiftfox Plugins,MS Fonts
“Commercial Software” contains the following applications
Crossover Office Professional 6.0-1 -- Install and Run Windows applications like MS Office and Adobe Photoshop on Ubuntu
Crossover Office Standard 6.0-1 -- Install and Run Windows applications like MS Office and Adobe Photoshop on Ubuntu
“Drivers” contains the following applications
Lightscribe for Linux -- LaCie LightScribe Labeler for Linux
NDISWrapper -- A driver wrapper that allows you to use windows drivers for network cards
Nvidia Driver -- Installs nVidia drivers on select nVidia cards
“Email Clients” contains the following applications
Checkgmail -- Gmail checker which sits in your system tray
Thunderbird 1.5 -- Installs Thunderbird 1.5
“Eyecandy” contains the following applications
Gdesklets -- Installs Gdesklets
“File Sharing” contains the following applications
Azures -- Installs Azureus bittorrent client
Bittornado -- A GTK Bittorent Client for GNOME
DCPP -- Linux DC++ client
Frostwire -- Install Frostwire P2P client
aMule -- Latest version of a P2P file sharing client
“Media Players and Editors” contains the following applications
Audacity -- A Versatile audio editor
Avidemux -- Video Editing Tool
Beep Media Player -- A classic winamp style audio player
DVD Ripper -- Installs a GTK based DVD ripper
Easytag -- A Versatile mp3 tag editor
Exaile -- Amarok like music manager for Gnome
Kino -- A Versatile Video editor
Listen Media Manager -- Latest Version of a new media manager and player for GNOME
RealPlayer -- Installs RealPlayer
Songbird -- Music Manager
Totem Xine -- A media player
VLC Media Player -- Another Versatile media player
iLinux -- iLife Alternative and Ipod programs and libraries
“Miscellaneous” contains the following applications
Automatix read/write NTFS and FAT32 Mounter -- Automatically mounts all local FAT32 and NTFS Partitions and makes them writable
Ctrl-Alt-Del -- This Configures Ctrl-Alt-Del to Open Gnome System Monitor
Debian Menu -- Shows all installed applications on your system
Extra Fonts -- Additional fonts and msttcorefonts
Nautilus Scripts -- Open Nautilus, and any file with gedit with a right click, as root (GNOME ONLY)
Slab -- Installs Novell’s “Slab” menu used in SLED 10
“Office” contains the following applications
Acrobat Reader -- Adobe Acrobat Reader and plugin for Firefox 2.0
GnuCash -- Money management software for GNOME
Google Earth -- Satellite Earth imagery application from Google
Google Picasa -- Photo editing application from Google
OpenOffice Clipart -- clipart in OpenOffice
“Programming Tools” contains the following applications
Anjuta -- C/C++ Development enviroment
Bluefish -- HTML Editor
Gambas -- Gambas is a free development environment based on Basic interpreter like Visual Basic
Monodevelop -- C#/Boo/Java/Nemerle/lLasm Development enviroment
Screem -- Gnome website development environment
Scribus -- Desktop publishing software
Stanis Python Editor -- A powerful python IDE
“Utilities” contains the following applications
Archiving Tools -- Additional archiving tools (rar, unrar, ace, and 7zip)
Backup and Restore -- A graphical backup and restore solution for Ubuntu (GNOME)
Beagle -- A Mono-based desktop search program
Boot-up Manager -- Easy configuration of startup and shutdown scripts and services
GFTP -- FTP client for GNOME with ssh capability
Glipper -- Clipboard Manager for Gnome
Gnome Security Suite -- ClamAV Antivirus and Firestarter Firewall
GnomePPP -- Graphical dialup connection tool
Liferea -- A RSS reader for GNOME
Network Manager -- A Program and menu applet that allows you to easily change networks
“Virtualization” contains the following applications
VMware Player -- Runs virtual operating systems
VirtualBox -- Runs virtual operating systems
Wine -- Installs wine
“Web Browsers” contains the following applications
Opera Browser -- Installs Opera Web Browser
Swiftfox Browser -- Installs Swiftfox browser for your specific CPU
Example
Now we will see one example how to install Opera web browser using automatix first you need to check the tick box option available next to opera browser application
Now if you want to start installation you need to click on start button available at the top panel
Opera Web Browser installation in progress
Uninstall applications Using Automatix
If you want to uninstall any application which you installed using automatix you need to click on uninstall tab select the application you want to uninstall and click on start button on top
Automatix2 is having new feature when you can check your automatix activitylog, changelog, Errors and Information and Source list
Sample Activitylog Report
Sample Changelog Report
Automatix2 Version details
I had an issue with the source list. In this line:
echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt Feisty main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
the word Feisty should be feisty. I got errors with it capitalized. Other than that, it is a great tutorial. Thanks.
I have corrected this in main article thanks tony
Very excellent guide! 🙂 Thanks!
Hi, I followed your instructions but got this error message. I’m new (brand new) to linux and ubuntu so please forgive me if I’ve done something dumb!
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 44 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
The last command I successfully entered was:
gpg –export –armor E23C5FC3 | sudo apt-key add –
@Greg
That is a mistake in the configuration file for your package manager
Please post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list and we’ll fix it.
I have the same problem as @Greg.
Any help would be great.
however it won’t let me post what the Admin says to post because of spam filters
Yep, had the same as tiny. You should be able to unblock it though
Same problem as tiny and Greg and now my installer in kubuntu no longer works. Help. I can’t believe all this has to be done just to install a flash player. Between this, configuring my wireless card and fixing my touchpad, I’m exausted. Any help would be appreciated.
Windows user trying to give UBUNTU a good try.
Do I really need automatix? I just downloaded flash player plugin from firefox and it worked. I still can’t use my installer though due to changes made to /etc/apt/sources.
here is the fix guys (Greg)
You have to edit the sources.list file. Please note that this might have grave issues but I have no idea what they are. I just read that on some other site. I don’t take any responsibility for your results since this is my first Linux install and I don’t know much about it yet.
1. Create a backup in case something goes wrong.
sudo cp -p /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list_backup
2. Edit the sources.list file
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
3. Remove the quotes from these lines (I don’t know if it is supposed to be there twice or not). In my file they were the last lines in the file.
“deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main”
“deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main”
4. Save the file and close the editor.
5. Continue the install instructions with this line in the above article
sudo apt-get update
Hope I got it all down correctly.
Jesse: you definitely don’t need automatix for flash nor for many (all) of the packages automatix install. But it makes (some) things easier.
Hey, admin: I usually like your post, but are you sure about this one? Remember the recent post in /. generally having bad comments about an article that was also recommending to install automatix on a fresh feisty install. Most of the /. comments were mentioning how bad automatix deals with package management (how it screws it up).
Personally, I am not using automatix. I do everything with (1) apt-get/aptitude and (2) compiling packages from source (e.g. libdvdcss takes about 10 seconds to build). So: no, I haven’t had bad experiences with automatix, just asking.
Any comments?
yeah, it didn’t like those quotes around “deb…
I just went into /etc/apt/sources.list & removed them
Same here. I removed the quotes and I’m back in business.
Thanks guys
E: Couldn’t find package automatix2
AX seems to have killed/broken the following: Add/Remove applications,Synaptic& Update manager.
-dummies uninstall of AX is via Synaptic…go figure
Thanks for the nice article !
I’ve been wondering . how did you take automatix screenshots ? . i tried print screen ,screenshot applet but that doesnt work that well.
Also if anyone know any tool what would allow me to capture the video of my linux desktop that would be of great help.
i.e capturing video as i work on gimp and or write a prog on the ide.
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sid
I was able to get it installed after removing the quotes from the sources.list file and all was well until I rebooted.
Now, automatix errors out when trying to install packages. It could be the 2 packages that I’ve tried to install, but it seems strange that I was able to install 4 packages prior to the reboot.
Synaptics continues to work fine after installing Automatix2.
I just tried this ‘automatix’ thing and stopped after the first error, I.E., after I typed in:
sudo apt-get update
I got:
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 37 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
I stopped there, not having any good idea what to do next, and later tried to run Synaptics and got a message box with this text:
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 37 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
I don’t know what to do now.
I stopped there. But now my Synaptics is screwed up, and I still don’t have the codecs I needed. So I’ve fallen backward from attempting the ‘automatix’ thing. Pretty bad.
Is there a way to fix my old Synaptics, that someone has tested and actually works?
I don’t want conjecture by some greenhorn.
Has anyone figured out how to backout this miscreant installer?
I figure that the missing “deb” command must be part of a “debian” related installer, but I don’t know how to restore it.
Pretty irresponsible for someone to dump this bad info on the forum and then disappear.
If I don’t get it fixed in a day or so I’ll just re-install ubuntu.
Your sources.list cannot parse the quotes around the line with deb on it.
Try the following line in a terminal:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
On the last line, you will see “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main”
Remove the quotes, and save the file.
Now try:
sudo apt-get update
Continue with the rest of the tutorial.
Well Automatix just screwed up my system. I have tried to reset my sources.list but apt is complaining about a missing “package”-head or something in my settings file – I have absolutely no idea how to fix this and since most people wont have any idea how to fix things like this you should stay away from this buggy software!
right i am having a SIMULA problem i am a bit new 2 Linux please help i get this error when i try 2 update or use
synaptic package manager. thanks
sudo apt-get update
E: Type ‘echo’ is not known on line 60 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
here is my sources.list if this will help ?
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the ‘universe’
## repository.
## 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.
# deb http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe
## 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://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
# deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe
# deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security universe Automatix repo
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt edgy main Automatix repo
#AUTOMATIX REPOS START
deb http://wine.lowvoice.nl/apt feisty main
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main
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
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty universe multiverse
#AUTOMATIX REPOS END# Repository for wine
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main# Repository for wine
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main
echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt Feisty main
Done a fresh install of Feisty yesterday.
After that Medibuntu to install codecs etc.
All’s working well. DVD’s Firexfox etc.
The Automatix2 to install some extra sw.
After running automatix the systems aks an update of muliple packages, so i did…
After that I was not able to watch any DVD or whatever movie in Totem, mplayer or gxine anymore.
I did not find another sollution than a new fresh install of Feisty.
Did the same again, medibuntu and automatix2.
But only to install Picassa now.
Some sht again. After Automatix2, package update and no proper codes anymore.
Finally just install a fresh Feisty, without Automatix.
Im I the onlyone with this problem?
Grtz
echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
puts the ” in the file
Hi I followed the guide but keep getting the message
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt feisty main
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ wget http://www.getautomatix.com/keys/automatix2.key
–08:32:02– http://www.getautomatix.com/keys/automatix2.key
=> `automatix2.key’
Resolving http://www.getautomatix.com... 216.120.255.9
Connecting to http://www.getautomatix.com|216.120.255.9|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 1,706 (1.7K) [application/pgp-keys]
100%[====================================>] 1,706 –.–K/s
08:32:04 (404.17 KB/s) – `automatix2.key’ saved [1706/1706]
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ gpg –import automatix2.key
gpg: key E23C5FC3: public key “Arnav Ghosh (Automatix Team Lead) ” imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ gpg –export –armor E23C5FC3 | sudo apt-key add –
OK
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/hhtp could not be found.
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/hhtp could not be found.
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install automatix2
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package automatix2
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$
Please Help me this is a real pain
murdo@murdo-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get updateE: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/hhtp could not be found.
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/hhtp could not be found.
You should look into /etc/apt/sources.list and replace every occurence of “hhtp” with “http”.
Explaination: Apt is searching for a protocol handler for “hhtp”, but this handler does not exist.
Hope that helps,
Michael
Great Site!
Keep up the good work!
Hi, I am user of feisty linux, anyone can help me? I have this problem.
miguel@quantum2:~$ gpg –import automatix2.key
gpg: key E23C5FC3: “Arnav Ghosh (Automatix Team Lead) ” not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: unchanged: 1
miguel@quantum2:~$
miguel@quantum2:~$ gpg –export –armor E23C5FC3 | sudo apt-key add –
OK
miguel@quantum2:~$ sudo apt-get update
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 46 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
miguel@quantum2:~$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
miguel@quantum2:~$
miguel@quantum2:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release.gpg [191B]
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Translation-en_US
bla.. bla.. bla..
Fetched 3B in 1s (2B/s)
Reading package lists… Done
miguel@quantum2:~$ sudo apt-get install automatix2
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
E: Couldn’t find package automatix2
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
automatix2: Depends: python-gtkhtml2 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
I tried fixing broken packages with synaptic, but that didn’t work. Oh please help !