Ubuntu PLF Back as Medibuntu

Ubuntu LogoThe extremely useful Ubuntu PLF repository that provided tons of proprietary packages such as multimedia codecs has been down for a while but is back as Medibuntu!

Excerpt from the Medibuntu homepage:

Medibuntu is a packaging project dedicated to distributing software that cannot be included in Ubuntu for various reasons, related to geographical variations in legislation regarding intellectual property, security and other issues:

  • patentability of software, algorithms, formats and other abstract creation
  • legal restrictions on freedom of speech or communication
  • restrictions on the use of certain types of technical solution, such as cryptography
  • legal restrictions on imports of software technology, requiring for example specific permissions
  • etc.

A lot of excellent free software and non-free software is affected by such restriction somewhere in the world, thus preventing its inclusion into Ubuntu that, for economy and simplicity, are generally identical for all countries.

You can add this repository to your 6.10 “Edgy Eft” installation with the following commands:
wget -q http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/sources.list.d/edgy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update

or for 6.06 “Dapper Drake”:
wget -q http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo wget http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/sources.list.d/dapper.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update

For more information and (prettier) installation instructions visit the Medibuntu website.

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