Comments on: Automatix Alternatives – Chat Clients

By: hernan45b

hernan45b — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:31:20 +0000

Gracias. Me fue muy útil el Gyachi.

By: nick

nick — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:57:31 +0000

Don’t forget about weechat.

By: Henriette

Henriette — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:28:17 +0000

Hi.
Just one quick question. What’s the difference, if any, between Xchat and Xchat-gnome – or do you need both?

/Henriette

By: Kevin Fries

Kevin Fries — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:28:52 +0000

Boy talk about not getting it.

People use Automatix because the search portion of synaptic is overwhelming to many beginning users. Wouldn’t your efforts be much more effective if you could correct Automtix’s deficiencies? People use it because its easier to use. You are not solving that problem!!!

The automatix people may have a bad product, but it serves a need. Either provide people with a better alternative (and no your list is exactly the wrong answer to that, providing a well written version of Automatix that works with the Ubuntu system instead of around it would be a better alternative), or please be quiet.

By: amd-linux

amd-linux — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:06:12 +0000

Gutsy comes with a meta-packages that brings all the proprietary goodies (ecept DVD), it is already available in the Software Manager.

See here:

http://vale.homelinux.net/wordpress/?p=177

By: Phil Thane

Phil Thane — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 08:29:34 +0000

The real reason many of us use Automatix is to be found the ‘drivers and codecs’ section. I use Kubuntu and with each hardware upgrade and re-installation I have spent hours finding installing and configuring codecs for sound video, flash etc… Then I found Automatix and it ‘just works’.

My latest PC is AMD64 based and there is no easy way of getting a Flash plugin to work on my preferred browser (Konqueror). Automatix solves the problem by providing a 32bit version of Swiftfox, with all the plugins you could want and (crucially) what ever background tweaks are necessary to make it run on a 64bit system. It’s not ideal. I’d rather KDE did it or Adobe provided a 64 Lnux plugin, but they don’t and I need Flash to work so Automatix meets my need.

Ubuntu is getting better at codec support all the time, and maybe Automatix will become redundant. Maybe one day we’ll have the Grand Unifies Linux Installer and Package Manager, but until then Automatix, Klik, Autopackage and Winedoors all have their place.

By: zdzichu

zdzichu — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:40:16 +0000

Better way to install Skype is to use official repositories: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/repositories.html
This way user get automatic updating.
Or maybe Skype should be included in Ubuntu’s Commercial repositories?

By: Michael R. Head

Michael R. Head — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:33:22 +0000

Pidgin (for feisty) can also be found at http://www.getdeb.net

By: Michael R. Head

Michael R. Head — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:19:57 +0000

Skype is also in the medibuntu repository: http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repository.php http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/packages.php

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:03:42 +0000

I think it’s great your making a list of software that automatrix installs. I have always been cautious about install scripts like that and plus it’s nice to know how to do things yourself sometimes.