Repository for Ubuntu 13.04 published

Finally after some delay because of my final exam I took the time to finish the work on the repository for Ubuntu 13.04.

Well, and there it is.

Per policy always the latest release and the latest LTS release are supported with updates on GetDeb.net and PlayDeb.net. So all coming updates are going to be published for Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) and Ubuntu 13.04 (latest).

So have fun.


Personally, I only have 13.04 on my notebook installed and just can't get used to the new nautilus. How could they just remove the "F3" feature?

GetDeb gets a CDN

Due to the increasing visitors of our sites (both GetDeb.net and PlayDeb.net) and the bandwidth they consumed there was some downtime or slowness the past days. So we decided to make use of a CDN (CloudFlare in this case) to cache the static contents of the sites (mainly screenshots) and so help to decrease the traffic to our main server or another static content server.

This has been set up in the past days and is working well now. You may have got a page from CloudFlare telling that the site is not cached yet. But meanwhile all DNS changing and most of caching has been done which resulted in a great speed up when loading the sites.

Please let us know if you encounter difficulties and thanks for using our services ;)

Sites GetDeb.net, PlayDeb.net and repository up again

Fortunately, we did have an up-to-date backup of the old server at the end. The last days I was busy to get everything set up. The sites are up again and you should be able to browse the packages (none should be lost) as well as to use the repository as usual. If you have problems be sure that "dig screenshots.getdeb.net" outputs "208.113.160.150".
At the moment I am thinking of doing an online survey for Ubuntu 13.04. You can then vote which packages you like and do not want to miss on GetDeb/PlayDeb. This way unpopular packages can be left out of the repository for Ubuntu 13.04. Currently there are 130 source packages in GetDeb and 170 source packages in PlayDeb which is just too much.
For the most popular packages I am also planning to get them intergrated in the official Ubuntu repositories directly. Or even better to get them integrated in Debian and let Ubuntu just sync them.
So far, you should be able to use GetDeb and PlayDeb as usual. Let me think about the future…

Also join the G+ sites: +GetDeb.net +PlayDeb.net

Server downtime

The server is currently down because of a power outage with hardware failure. Please be patient.

Quantal repository published

The GetDeb.net repository for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal is published.
The new Ubuntu version will be published next week and I am glad to say that the GetDeb.net repository is up in time.

New applications will now be published for Ubuntu 12.04 and Ubuntu 12.10 on GetDeb.net because Ubuntu 12.04 is a LTS release and Ubuntu 12.10 is the latest release.

Have fun with the new repository.

http://www.getdeb.net/updates/Ubuntu/12.10/

Notice that the following applications are not available in the repository:
Domotiga
http://www.getdeb.net/software/DomotiGa
Upstream authors are still working on porting the project to Gambas3.
Gambas2 which it still uses has now been removed from the official quantal repositories:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gambas2/+publishinghistory
The upstream progress can be seen here:
http://www.domotiga.nl/projects/domotiga/wiki/Gambas3

Flash for Linux
http://www.getdeb.net/software/Flash%20for%20Linux
The sources are from 2005 and it seems that the project is dead. It does not compile on Ubuntu 12.10 because it depends on QT3 which has been removed from the official repositories:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt-x11-free/+publishinghistory

Lince
http://www.getdeb.net/software/Lince
The application fails to compile on Ubuntu 12.10:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/lince/+bug/1064608
Just wait for upstream to fix this.

P.S.: Please also visit GetDeb.net on Google+
http://google.com/+getdeb

End of support for Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.10
After the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS it is now the only supported Ubuntu release because per policy always the latest Ubuntu release and the latest LTS release is supported which both now is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
No updates for Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.10 which were supported before are now release any longer.

GetDeb and PlayDeb repositories updated and published for Ubuntu 11.10

Well the topic already says it.

I am a bit late this time because I did not know the 11.10 release
had no RC release which I waited for before starting to test the packages
and update the mirrors.

Fortunately, most of the packages I could just copy from the natty to the oneiric
repository. But there are still about 50 packages pending which I need to rebuild
and test on oneiric.

There won't be any updates for the natty repositories from now on.

Following our policy we will publish packages for the latest LTS release (10.04) and
the latest release (11.10) of Ubuntu.

Have a great time using GetDeb and PlayDeb.

Christoph