Friday, June 4, 2010

Getting Mint Repositories In To Ubuntu 10.04

          I was just wondering if Linux Mint was based on Ubuntu then the softwares that they use in there distirbution. I've used both distros and found that liux mint have some good in house softwares that might be very use full to the daiehard Ubuntu users as well.

          So I started a small experiment with PROLiNK TA009 netbook which has a Intel N270 1.60GHz, 1Gb RAM, 160 Gb HDD, Wi-Fi and LAN. I searched my brains out find the repository addres and after getting to that I'd find the GPG keyring for the mint repository. So I'm writing this blog entry to help others who wants to add the linux mint reos in to there package soruces list. So here we go,

  • Open the Terminal and typ "sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list" and press enter.
  • Now enter this line in to your sources.list
              " deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ isadora main upstram import backport"

  • Now save and close the gedit.
  • In the terminal type "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install linuxmint-keyring" and pres enter.
  • Now you're redy to install any software in mint on to your Ubuntu 10.04.
Thats it enjoy.