Automatix: Good News for Ubuntu Breezy Users

[desertwind]

Automatix is a graphical interface for installation of a lot of apps on Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu BREEZY (DOES NOT WORK ON Warty, Hoary or Dapper) and for tweaking a few things to get your Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu box up and working in full throttle in the quickest possible timespan.

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=114251
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563

[vignesh]

Wow....But why not for drapper....

[mehulved]

Cos dapper drake's final release still isn't officially available. So, I guess it won't be yet available there.

[techno_funky]

hey cool great news this one is

[champ_rock]

thanks for the link man......... the command line is time consuming

[mehulved]

We should recommend it to newbies will make installation of essential softwares a snap for them.

[Satissh S]

Ahh.. Even with synaptic installing softwares is a snap.. Even ubuntu is gonna get bloated

[infra_red_dude]

i'm despo waiting to get back to bangalore..haf BB connection there!

[mehulved]

There's a problem here. How do you know which programs have completed installation. You can keep on reinstalling the same versions of applications without knowing that they have been installed as there's no sign of what is installed and what isn't. It still needs some work.

[vignesh]

As long as its available after the final release...

[techno_funky]

Originally Posted by tech_your_future

There's a problem here. How do you know which programs have completed installation. You can keep on reinstalling the same versions of applications without knowing that they have been installed as there's no sign of what is installed and what isn't. It still needs some work.

Howto remember which options In Automatix u have already checked in the past : Open terminal and type

cat $HOME/automatix.log

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563

hope that helps

[mehulved]

Thanks technofunky
Well that's fine but what about someone who's new to linux. This will be more helpful to them and not to someone who's used to linux. I can very well do with apt-get and when needed synaptic. But, it would be good if in the future version they can show the chnges there itself. Also, it fails to install mplayer. I had to use apt-get to do it. So, still some changes are needed to it.