From: Michal L. <ml...@lo...> - 2011-01-20 02:24:10
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(resending - corrected URL) Hi everyone! We have been maintaining installation repositories for RPM-based distributions, namely RHEL, Fedora, CentOS and OpenSUSE / SLES for quite some time now and the service became pretty popular - only yesterday we have seen over 1500 unique IP addresses checking for updates! However one of the frequent questions from the community - "*Is there a repository for Debian / Ubuntu?*" - used to have a negative answer. Although both Ubuntu and Debian have s3cmd in their standard repositories the versions there are never updated once released which is especially annoying for distributions with a long support like Ubuntu LTS. Now the things have changed - the S3tools project announces an *Official s3cmd DEB repository* from which you can always get the latest greatest s3cmd for your Debian or Ubuntu. Follow these steps to enable the repo from command line: 1) Import the repository key: wget -O- -q http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.key | sudo apt-key add - 2) Add the repo to sources.list: sudo wget -O/etc/apt/sources.list.d/s3tools.list http://s3tools.org/repo/deb-all/stable/s3tools.list 3) Refresh package cache: sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install -V s3cmd 4) Test if it works as expected and let me know if not :) Although I'm not a DEB packaging expert the repo seems to work fine, tested on Ubuntu 10.4 LTS x86 (Lucid Lynx), on Debian 5 amd64 (Lenny) and on Debian 6 (Squeeze) running on quite an exotic HP-PA machine. Should work just fine with Ubuntu 10.10 and newer and most likely with some older Ubuntus too. Success stories are indeed welcome :) Enjoy it! Michal |