Access and Synchronize GetDeb.net packages through Apt-get and Synaptic

Labels: , , Posted by defcon on Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 12:01 AM

If you already dont know about getdeb.net, it is a great site to download the latest software, not many people know this but you can use getdeb's mirrors as repositories to sync your GetDeb packages with the update manager and Synaptic.




1. Open up a terminal (applications>accessories> Terminal) and run the following:

sudo echo "deb http://ubuntu.org.ua/ getdeb/" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

or

deb http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ getdeb/

If I were you I would ping each host to see which is closer and add that one

Save the file and exit.

3. Now run the following in the terminal:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Now you should be able to install GetDeb.net programs through the Synaptic package manager as well as apt.


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· 917 weeks ago

Wow, this is totally fantastic! Thank you so much!

Do you know if they have a pgp key too, so that I want get a warning every time I upgrade from them?
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· 916 weeks ago

Using packages from getdeb can cause you big problems and broke lots of packages... :(
You should not upgrade from getdeb the packages that you already have in the ubuntu repository just because they upgrade it to the latest version a few days later.
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· 914 weeks ago

Dread,
could you be more precise ?
which package from getdeb have caused you a problem ?
Have you reported it already ?

Thanks
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· 913 weeks ago

i never had a problem with getdeb packages messing with my ubuntu packages, the only thing I can think of is that getdeb packages may be more unstable than ubuntu packages
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· 912 weeks ago

I did sudo echo "deb http://ubuntu.org.ua/ getdeb/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list and got this error bash: /etc/apt/sources.list: Permission denied.

I did deb http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/ getdeb/ and got this error bash: deb: command not found.

Is there any other way to add these or what do I need to do to fix these errors.
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· 912 weeks ago

just use gedit to open the /etc/apt/sources.list file and append the deb http* line at the end of it then apt-get update
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· 891 weeks ago

Simplest way is to go to System->administration->Software Sources. Then under third party repositories, add "deb http://ubuntu.org.ua/ getdeb/"
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Banny · 871 weeks ago

Doesn't work, when I update. The packages that need to be updated come up in the update manager but will not download.
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Maski · 868 weeks ago

Ok, y added the deb line by hand on the sources, But when im downloading package info I get failed on that url.

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