Automatix No Longer Works - What's the Alternative?
This is a simple script to automate the installation of all those extra stuff after you have installed Hardy...
Installs Multimedia codecs (ubuntu-restricted-extras & w32codecs), Buildessential package, AWN & AWN extras, Mplayer, DVD support, Flash, Sun Java Runtime Environment and plugin, Microsoft fonts, Adobe Reader, vlc player,k9copy, audacity, skype, wine & wine doors,Picasa,Totem,RealPlayer
Compiz Fusion,Emerald,kdegames,gnome-games,opera,mozilla,mozilla-thunderbird,pidgin,filezilla,gftp,sylpheed, VPN support, googleearth, Envy NG
and more ...
Save this list of packages as ~/aptfiles.txt
sudo kate ./aptfiles.txt
envyng-gtk ubuntu-restricted-extras w32codecs kdm libxine1-ffmpeg build-essential awn-manager-trunk awn-extras-applets-trunk mplayer libdvdcss2 libdvdread3 libdvdnav4 debhelper fakeroot flashplugin-nonfree libflashsupport sun-java6-fonts sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin msttcorefonts firefox vlc listen gparted mozilla-plugin-vlc mozilla-helix-player kaffeine-mozilla mozilla-mplayer totem-gstreamer totem-xine totem-plugins kaffeine-mozilla mozilla-mplayer helix-player xine-ui listen gimp gimp-data-extras azureus qtorrent mozilla-thunderbird amsn gftp sylpheed kget k9copy ripperx banshee exaile rar unrar arj p7zip-full krusader mc ntp compiz-core compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-plugins libcompizconfig0 compiz-kde compiz-plugins compizconfig-backend-kconfig compizconfig-settings-manager kicker-compiz kicker-taskbar-compiz fusion-icon emerald kdegames gnome-games pidgin qtparted ntfsprogs acroread audacity skype wine tvtime network-manager-gnome network-manager-openvpn network-manager-pptp network-manager-vpnc googleearthsave the file and close kate.
sudo kate ./aptfiles-install-script
#!/bin/bash #Add mediubuntu repositories sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list sudo wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring sudo apt-get update #Install all the packages from aptfiles.txt cat ~/aptfiles.txt | xargs sudo apt-get -y install --force-yes sudo aptitude -y update && aptitude -y dist-upgrade sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh sudo fc-cache #Installing Wine-Doors sudo wget http://www.wine-doors.org/releases/wine-doors_0.1-1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i wine-doors_0.1-1_all.deb #Installing Picasa sudo wget http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/pool/non-free/p/picasa/picasa_2.7.3736-15_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i picasa_2.7.3736-15_i386.deb #Installing Opera sudo wget ftp://ftp.wayne.edu/opera/linux/927/final/en/i386/static/opera-static_9.27-20080331.1-qt_en_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i opera-static_9.27-20080331.1-qt_en_i386.deb #Emerald-Themes sudo wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/emerald-themes/emerald-themes_0.2.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i emerald-themes_0.2.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb #Installing RealPlayer 11 GOLD sudo wget http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?f=unix/RealPlayer11GOLD.bin sudo chmod 770 RealPlayer11GOLD.bin sudo ./RealPlayer11GOLD.bin cd /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt nphelix.xpt sudo ln -s /opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so nphelix.so sudo mv /usr/lib/totem/gstreamer/libtotem-complex-plugin.so ~/ sudo nm-applet #ATI & NVIDIA drivers sudo envyng-gtk exit
Subsequently, save the file and close kate.
Running the script
Run the following commands:
sudo chmod +x ./aptfiles-install-script sudo ./aptfiles-install-script
#Note#
This script contains libdvdcss look here if you live in the U.S. !.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decss
Let me know if anybody else finds it useful
Mikorist
