READ ONLY FORUM: m23 :: makes software distribution easy

koenr · Joined: 07 Jun 2011 Posts: 26

The object is to install te latest Firefox stable version and the latest stable LibreOffice on an Ubuntu 10.04 using m23.

We install these packages using ppa in sources.

- Go to package sources and create preferably a new package source based on Ubuntu lucid, giving it a meaning full name. If the machines are already deployed, I think there is no other option then altering the originaly used package source.

- Add the following lines:
#Libreoffice
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu lucid main

#Firefox stable
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-stable/ubuntu lucid main

- Save and click "Test it"

- Search in the Test restuls for GPG errors

- Logon in the console of your m23 server as root

- Type
-# gpg --recv-keys 40976EAF437D05B5 (-> for all the numbers of missing GPG keys found in the test result page)
-# gpg --export --armor 40976EAF437D05B5 | apt-key add - (-> for all the numbers of missing GPG keys in the test result page, mind the hyphen at the end of this line!)

- Go to the client or group window and update your clients if you have a set of installed clients. Firefox will be updated.

- In the packages window you can now remove OpenOffice and install LibreOffice the normal m23 way.

Please comment if improvements are possible. I tried the Manage GPG Key page, but couldn't get it to work.