Automatix is a graphical interface for automating the installation of the most commonly requested applications in Debian based Linux operating systems.
For Edgy Eft Users
Installing on Ubuntu 6.10,Kubuntu 6.10,Xubuntu 6.10 i386,amd64
Open terminal from Applications—>Accessories—>Terminal From terminal do the following enter each line and press enter
echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt edgy main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget http://www.getautomatix.com/apt/key.gpg.asc
gpg --import key.gpg.asc
gpg --export --armor 521A9C7C | sudo apt-key add -
For Dapper Users
Installing on Ubuntu 6.06,Kubuntu 6.06,Xubuntu 6.06 i386,amd64
Open terminal from Applications—>Accessories—>Terminal From terminal do the following enter each line and press enter
echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt dapper main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget http://www.getautomatix.com/apt/key.gpg.asc
gpg --import key.gpg.asc
gpg --export --armor 521A9C7C | sudo apt-key add -
Now you need to update your source list using the following command
sudo apt-get update
Install Automatix2 Using the following command
sudo apt-get install automatix2
This will complete the installation and now if you want to open the application you need to go to Applications—>System Tools—>Automatix you can see in the following screen
This will prompt for root password and enter your root password and click ok
Multimedia codecs information just click on yes
Automatix2 is loading
Automatix2 is Updating Source list
Now you should see the following screen this is having different softwares in different categories first one is “File Sharing” this contains the following applications
Azures – Installs Azureus bittorrent client
Bittornado – Bittorent Client
DCPP – Linux DC++ client
Frostwire – P2P file sharing client (GPL clone of Limewire)
aMule – Latest version of a P2P file sharing client
“Internet” category includes the following applications
AMSN 0.95 – MSN client with webcam support
Checkgmail – A nifty gmail checker
Gaim 2.0 beta3 – The latest version of a popular IM client compatible with YIM/MSN/AIM/Jabber etc
GFTP – FTP client for GNOME with ssh capability
Gizmo Project – VoIP phone
GnomePPP – Graphical dialup connection tool (GNOME ONLY)
Google Earth – Satellite Earth imagery application from Google
NDISWrapper – A driver wrapper that allows you to use Windows driver for network cards
Network Manager – A program and menu applet that allows you to easily change networks
Opera Browser – Opera Web Browser
Skype – A free Voice Over IP software
SUN JAVA 1.5 JRE – Sun’s version 1.5 JRE & The Firefox plugin
Swiftfox Browser – optimized Firefox browser for your specific CPU
Swiftfox Plugins – Java, Flash, Acrobat, Mplayer, MS fonts
Thunderbird 1.5 – Email client
XChat – a popular IRC client
Next one is “Miscellaneous” category this contains the following applications
Debian Menu – Shows all installed applications on your system
Extra Fonts – Additional fonts and msttcorefonts
Gdesklets – eyecandy for Gnome
Nautilus Scripts – Open Nautilus, and any file with gedit with a right click, as root (GNOME ONLY)
NVIDIA Driver – Installs NVIDIA drivers on select NVIDIA cards
Slab – Novell’s “Slab” menu used in SLED 10
Next category is “Multimedia” this contains the following applications
AUD-DVD codecs – NON-FREE Audio and DVD codecs) (Installation of this option is illegal in the United States of America
Avidemux – Video Editing Tool
Democracy Player – Internet TV platform
DVD Ripper – DVD ripper
Flashplayer – Adobe Flash Player for FF
Google Picasa – Photo editing application from Google
Listen Media Manager – Latest version of a new media manager and player for GNOME
Media Players – Totem-xine, VLC and Beep Media Player (with docklet)
MPlayer & FF plugin – MPlayer and Firefox 1.5 plugin
Multimedia Codecs – Commonly needed audio and video codecs
Multimedia Editing – Audio (Audacity) Video (Kino) and ID3 Tag (Easytag) editors
RealPlayer – RealPlayer
Ripper and Tuner – Streamripper (rips Internet radio streams) and Streamtuner (Internet radio client)
iLinux – iLife Alternative (Banshee, F-Spot, Kino)
Next category is “Office” this contains the following applications
Acrobat Reader – Adobe Acrobat Reader and plugin for Firefox 1.5
GnuCash – Money management software for GNOME
OpenOffice Clipart – clipart in OpenOffice
Next Category is “Utilities” this contains the following applications
Archiving Tools – Additional archiving tools (rar, unrar, ace, and 7zip)
Backup and Restore – A graphical backup and restore solution for Ubuntu (GNOME)
Beagle – A Mono-based search program
Boot-up Manager – Easy configuration of startup and shutdown scripts and services
Ctrl-Alt-Del – This configures Ctrl-Alt-Del to Open Gnome System Monitor (GNOME ONLY)
Gnome Security Suite – ClamAV Antivirus and firestarter Firewall
Gnomebaker – The best GTK2 CD/DVD burning software
Liferea – A RSS reader for GNOME
Programming Tools – Anjuta (C/C++ IDE), Bluefish (HTML editor), Screem (web development), NVU (HTML editor)
SUN JAVA 1.5 JDK – Sun’s version 1.5 JDK (Most users DONT need this)
VMware Player – Runs Virtual Operating Systems
Wine – Installs Wine
Example
Now we will see one example how to install VMware player using automatix first you need to tick the tick box option available next to VMware player application
Now if you want to start installation you need to click on start button available at the top panel
VMware player is installation in progress
VMware player End User agreement select ok and press enter
Accept VMware player license terms select yes and press enter
Uninstall applications Using Automatix
If you want to uninstall any application which you installed using automatix you need to click on uninstall tab select the application you want to uninstall and click on start button on top
Automatix2 Version details
These steps doesn’t work for kubuntu 6.10
This line writes the “” in the file
echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt edgy main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
This line seems to work
wget http://www.getautomatix.com/apt/key.gpg.asc
This line I get an error : usage gpg [option] …
gpg –import key.gpg.asc
This line I get an error too : gpg: aucune donnée OpenPGP valide n’a été trouvée.
it is in french but it means no valid data OpenPGP found or something like this
gpg –export –armor 521A9C7C | sudo apt-key add –
Thank you
@Doomx
Please check the commands have a space between the “-”
gpg –import key.gpg.asc
gpg –export –armor 521A9C7C | sudo apt-key add –
Also I got another error after the above corrections.
“E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 34 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list”
which upon the file I found that the line was enclosed in quotes.
“deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt edgy main”
Change the permissions on this file so that you can write to it.
Open in gedit >> sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Take out the quotes.
Save
Continue as shown above
Hope this helps
I just tried this and found that getting the key doesn’t work.
The following is the output returned:
wget http://www.getautomatix.com/apt/key.gpg.asc
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
It’s a little weird because there is a text file at the given location.
After browsing to the listed site, the site contains text. Copying this into a file of the same name, ie, “key.gpg.asc” seems to work and allows the remainder of the installation to proceed.
However, when running Automatix once installed, I get the following message, which I doubt I can resolve with the same approach…
“Sorry Automatix can not continue because some keys could not be downloaded, please try again later.”
Hopefully, trying again later will be more successful.
the problem i found with updating the gpg key was that some of the charicters used are incorrect. – should be replaced with –, so the command should be:
gpg –export –armor 521A9C7C | sudo apt-key add –
i have corrected this problem in the main article
Gnomebaker doesnt work for me, and i installed avidemux but cant find it on the computer.
I am installing in Edgy in Xbuntu. When I enter the command
kelly@xbuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
I get
E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 40 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
What do I do?
kelly
check line 40 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list and try to remove deb save and exit the file
I dare to correct you Admin! 😛
Kelly’s problem : E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 40 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
is due to the fact that the command
echo “deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt edgy main” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
puts the automatix repository in the apt sources.list but quoted:
“deb http://www.getautomatix.com/apt edgy main”
for the rest it works smooth, at least for me.
Yeah make sure not to copy the sources.list entries with the quotes, lol.
Is there a fix for this?
Connecting to http://www.getautomatix.com|82.165.193.29|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 404 Not Found
10:16:28 ERROR 404: Not Found.
Tats because the site was hacked on March 7th, its back up as of march 9th
Trying to install in Edubuntu…no go…tango-icon-theme not installable. Any work arounds?
tango-icon-theme not installable….. fix
System — Synaptic
Reload
Not Install – Mark tango…..
didn’t work for Kubuntu Dapper.
I can’t apt-get nothing now!
The whole thing’s messed up
TEST IT BEFORE YOU SELL IT
It all worked great for me (Kubuntu dapper)
thank u man
you should use sudo (or gksudo?) on the wget lne (sudo wget http://www.getautomatix.com/keys/automatix2.key), that worked 4 me. Before that I just got the “Cannot write to `automatix2.key'”-error.
i got this after unknowingly trying to install automatix on ubuntu 8.04
“E:Type ‘http://www.getautomatix.com/keys/automatix2.key’ is not known on line 16 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list, E:The list of sources could not be read.’
how do i deal with this problem?