HISPACTA Hell

Monday, August 10, 2009

Adding new package sources to Ubuntu Synaptic

Our web team decided a couple months ago to require maven 2.2 for their builds, which was a bit of problem for me because the Debian/Ubuntu guys took their sweet time in getting the 2.2 build available through the default package authorities that my out-of-the-box synaptic configuration pointed to.

I found this guy's Personal Package Archive with maven-2.2 available, and here are the steps I followed (stolen from his how-to) to get maven upgraded locally:

1) System -> Administration -> Software Sources -> 3rd Party -> Add

2) Added his 2 links to the 3rd party sources

3) Clicked close and ignored the errors

4) On a terminal, typed:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 5FEF2294
(where the 5FEF2294 is the part after the slash on his Signing Key)

5) sudo apt-get update