Eek, once again, I managed to accidentally reply off-list. :-P
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From: William Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: May 29, 2007 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third
party repository
To: Christopher Halse Rog
On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:16 +1000, Christopher Halse Rogers wrote:
> On 5/28/07, Dean Sas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Not in Gutsy at least, there's an authentication tab in
> > software-properties-gtk, you can press the "import key file" and browse
> > to a key file to add that.
> >
> Since
On 5/28/07, Dean Sas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Not in Gutsy at least, there's an authentication tab in
> software-properties-gtk, you can press the "import key file" and browse
> to a key file to add that.
>
Since software-properties-gtk is already a mime handler for
sources.list, could we ext
2007/5/28, Dean Sas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Not in Gutsy at least, there's an authentication tab in
software-properties-gtk, you can press the "import key file" and browse
to a key file to add that.
That's in Feisty too, but then you need to download the key file before
trying to import. It wou
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Scott Ritchie wrote:
> But what about the GPG key? Do they still need to add that with a
> terminal command?
Not in Gutsy at least, there's an authentication tab in
software-properties-gtk, you can press the "import key file" and browse
to a key file
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Chris Wagner wrote:
> Furthermore, a more formal mechanism would allow for Ubuntu to give a
> big, fat warning for unknown/untrusted third party repositories. What I
> mean is, Ubuntu could store a list of known and trusted repositories,
> which might
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 03:03:36PM -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
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> But what about the GPG key? Do they still need to add that with a
> terminal command?
There are GUI tools for manipulating GPG keys for APT as well, the one I
know is gui-apt-key, written in GTK-perl.
Ming
2007.05.26
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On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 14:41 -0400, Jean-François Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> On 5/25/07, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > With the current cryptic instructions, though, even if we gave
> > absolutely no information about what this process does we'd be no worse
> > off than we are no
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 11:18 -0700, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> With the current cryptic instructions, though, even if we gave
> absolutely no information about what this process does we'd be no worse
> off than we are now - users are already blindly entering terminal
> commands. If we couple the file-b
On 5/25/07, Scott Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> With the current cryptic instructions, though, even if we gave
> absolutely no information about what this process does we'd be no worse
> off than we are now - users are already blindly entering terminal
> commands. If we couple the file-
Next to medibuntu, I currently run one of the most popular third party
repositories for Ubuntu, the WineHQ APT repository.
The problem is that the instructions at this website are too hard:
http://winehq.org/site/download-deb
Users need to cut and paste two terminal commands and type their
passwo
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