What are your favorite non-official repositories for Dapper?

**Anduu** · July 2nd, 2006

Originally Posted by ubuntu_demon

How stable are the packages from these repositories ? Do you think a lot of people use them ?

If you use these repositories how much work is it to enable compiz and xgl ? Is it still a power user thing ?

Code:

deb http://www.beerorkid.com/compiz/ dapper main
deb http://xgl.compiz.info/ dapper main
deb-src http://xgl.compiz.info/ dapper main

Their compiz/XGL packages are top notch.I have used them since XGL was first made to work with Dapper Beta.During the last couple months before Dapper went final they were being updated almost daily and even now a couple times a week at least.

With all those upgrades my XGL maybe broke 2 or 3 times but fixed packages would appear quickly...within hours.

Installing XGL using their repos is no more difficult than any other.In fact their ATI how-to was my first really succesful attempt at installing.

http://www.compiz.net/viewforum.php?id=5

**ubuntu_demon** · July 2nd, 2006

Originally Posted by Anduu

Code:

deb http://www.beerorkid.com/compiz/ dapper main
deb http://xgl.compiz.info/ dapper main
deb-src http://xgl.compiz.info/ dapper main

Their compiz/XGL packages are top notch.I have used them since XGL was first made to work with Dapper Beta.During the last couple months before Dapper went final they were being updated almost daily and even now a couple times a week at least.

With all those upgrades my XGL maybe broke 2 or 3 times but fixed packages would appear quickly...within hours.

Installing XGL using their repos is no more difficult than any other.In fact their ATI how-to was my first really succesful attempt at installing.

http://www.compiz.net/viewforum.php?id=5

So it's still a power user thing

**yaztromo** · July 3rd, 2006

Originally Posted by disturbed1

rarewares.org and debian-multimedia.org

Rarewares has some hard to find audio codecs (Monkeys Audio), and debian-multimedia because it has the newest and latest multimedia apps.

Same here. Rarewares for oggenc-aotuv and lame-3.97

#Rarewares
deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable/ ./

@disturbed1
Although for updated ogg vorbis I have not had to re-link anything? Just installed aotuv and a few other vorbis bits from rarewares and ran?

**mstlyevil** · July 3rd, 2006

Originally Posted by ubuntu_demon

How stable are the packages from these repositories ? Do you think a lot of people use them ?

If you use these repositories how much work is it to enable compiz and xgl ? Is it still a power user thing ?

The majority of Compiz users on Dapper use them. They are very stable now that the dock and miniwin plugins have been removed and have a lot nicer effects than the vanilla cvs compiz. They are a lot more stable and up to date than the XGL/Compiz versions in the repos.

**ubuntu_demon** · July 3rd, 2006

Originally Posted by mstlyevil

The majority of Compiz users on Dapper use them. They are very stable now that the dock and miniwin plugins have been removed and have a lot nicer effects than the vanilla cvs compiz. They are a lot more stable and up to date than the XGL/Compiz versions in the repos.

Okay thnx.

**Christmas** · July 3rd, 2006

amaroK latest only. nice post and hard to answer? what's the matter with wine in the official repos isn't it official?

**ubuntu_demon** · July 3rd, 2006

Originally Posted by Christmas

what's the matter with wine in the official repos isn't it official?

That wine repository is wine's official bleeding edgy repository for Dapper. It's not an official Ubuntu repository run by canonical though. The package version in the wine repository is : 0.9.16~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1

Whereas Ubuntu's wine package in universe has version : 0.9.9-0ubuntu2 which is older but might be more stable.

**ubuntu_demon** · July 3rd, 2006

I linked to this thread on my blog : http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com

**livingtarget** · July 7th, 2006

Originally Posted by ubuntu_demon

What kind of people use kde-latest ? How much breakage is involved ? If you use kde-latest please tell us about it.

Not too much breakage, there probably is some but it ain't too bad. I'm running Amarok 1.4.1 as well (which I always find very stable).

I build wine from source all the time (fix regressions + quicker), so I don't think that counts.

**ubuntu_demon** · July 9th, 2006

The opera repository has become obsolete for opera users.

I added canonical commercial to my recommended Dapper sources.list right here : http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185758

Code:

## dapper-commercial by canonical
## currently has realplay (realplayer 10) and opera (opera 9)
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu dapper-commercial main

Here's a bit more information :
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/07/...ial-repository
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2006/07/06/02/

I posted on my blog about this repository :
http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/200...al-repository/