Medibuntu Announcementstag:launchpad.net,2006-11-25:/medibuntu/+announcementshttps://launchpadlibrarian.net/7113288/medibuntu-logo_64.pnghttps://launchpadlibrarian.net/7113287/medibuntu-logo_14.png2013-09-11T16:12:04.089433+00:00The Medibuntu project comes to an end2013-09-11T15:26:08.738950+00:002013-09-11T16:12:04.089433+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2013-09-11:/+announcement/11951Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>The Medibuntu repository has been unmaintained for several months, and has become more and more useless over the years. The project is now considered abandoned, and we recommend to disable the repository if you are using it.</p>
<p>See <a href="http://gauvain.pocentek.net/node/61" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>gauvain.<wbr/>pocentek.<wbr/>net/node/<wbr/>61</a> and <a href="http://blogs.kde.org/2013/09/11/medibuntu-disappear-libdvdcss-now-direct-videolan" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blogs.kde.<wbr/>org/2013/<wbr/>09/11/medibuntu<wbr/>-disappear-<wbr/>libdvdcss-<wbr/>now-direct-<wbr/>videolan</a> for details.</p>
<p>Thanks to all the Medibuntu users and contributors.</p>Looking for new maintainer(s)2013-03-02T16:56:22.984538+00:002013-03-02T16:56:22.923669+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2013-03-02:/+announcement/11219Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>Due to lack of time and interest, I will stop maintaining the Medibuntu repository.</p>
<p>The repository will stay on line as is for a while, but will not receive updates.</p>
<p>Please get in touch with me (<a href="https://launchpad.net/~gpocentek" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~gpocentek</a>) if you want to take over maintainance and/or hosting of the frontend for <a href="http://www.medibuntu.org" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>www.medibuntu.<wbr/>org</a> and <a href="http://packages.medibuntu.org" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>packages.<wbr/>medibuntu.<wbr/>org</a>.</p>Ubuntu 11.04 reached end-of-life2012-11-02T15:15:49.182053+00:002012-11-02T15:15:49.100448+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2012-11-02:/+announcement/10799Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>As announced by the Canonical Team, the support period of Ubuntu 11.04 has ended. Consequently, Medibuntu's repository for Ubuntu 11.04 will no longer receive any update and has be switched to read-only.</p>Quantal repository available2012-10-07T15:12:23.579383+00:002012-10-07T15:12:23.487850+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2012-10-07:/+announcement/10698Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>The Medibuntu repository for Quantal (12.10) is ready to be used with your freshly updated/installed Ubuntu distribution.</p>
<p>To enable the Medibuntu repository, follow the online documentation at <<a href="http://www.medibuntu.org/repository.php" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>www.medibuntu.<wbr/>org/repository.<wbr/>php</a>>.</p>
<p>Please report any bug you may encounter on <<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/medibuntu</a>>.</p>
<p>Thank you for using Medibuntu.</p>Medibuntu Offline on Oct. 10th2012-09-27T14:59:23.000330+00:002012-09-27T14:59:22.943972+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2012-09-27:/+announcement/10672Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>The main Medibuntu server will be down for maintenance during a few hours on October 10th. If everything goes as execpected the website and repository should be back online around 6am (UTC).</p>Ubuntu 10.10 reaches end-of-life2012-05-04T14:55:45.718864+00:002012-05-04T14:55:45.648427+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2012-05-04:/+announcement/10002Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>As announced by the Canonical Team, the support period of Ubuntu 10.10 has ended. Consequently, Medibuntu's repository for Ubuntu 10.10 will no longer receive any update and has be switched to read-only.</p>Precise repository available2012-04-26T18:39:17.981113+00:002012-04-26T18:39:17.912271+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2012-04-26:/+announcement/9963Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>The Medibuntu repository for Precise (12.04) is ready to be used with your freshly updated/installed Ubuntu distribution.</p>
<p>To enable the Medibuntu repository, follow the online documentation at <<a href="http://www.medibuntu.org/repository.php" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>www.medibuntu.<wbr/>org/repository.<wbr/>php</a>>.</p>
<p>Please report any bug you may encounter on <<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/medibuntu</a>>.</p>
<p>Thank you for using Medibuntu.</p>Oneiric repository available2011-10-13T16:24:12.735179+00:002011-10-13T16:24:12.689521+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2011-10-13:/+announcement/9050Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>The Medibuntu repository for Oneric (11.10) is ready to be used with your freshly updated/installed Ubuntu distribution.</p>
<p>To enable the Medibuntu repository, follow the online documentation at <<a href="http://www.medibuntu.org/repository.php" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>www.medibuntu.<wbr/>org/repository.<wbr/>php</a>>.</p>
<p>Please report any bug you may encounter on <<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/medibuntu</a>>.</p>
<p>Thank you for using Medibuntu.</p>Medibuntu downtime ahead2011-05-21T11:31:21.536657+00:002011-05-21T11:31:21.466860+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2011-05-21:/+announcement/8395Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>Due to server maintenance, Medibuntu website and repositories will be down for a couple hours today.</p>Ubuntu 8.04 reaches end-of-life on May 12, 20112011-04-30T08:01:53.046666+00:002011-04-30T08:01:52.978154+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2011-04-30:/+announcement/8256Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>As announced by Kate Stewart, the support period of Ubuntu 8.04 will be over on May 12, 2011. Consequently, Medibuntu's repository for Ubuntu 8.04 will no longer receive any update and will be switched to read-only at that time.</p>Ubuntu 9.10 reaches end-of-life2011-04-30T07:32:40.871002+00:002011-04-30T07:33:05.227245+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2011-04-30:/+announcement/8255Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>As written by Kate Stewart, the support period of Ubuntu 9.10 will be over on April 30, 2011. Consequently, Medibuntu's repository for Ubuntu 9.10 will no longer receive any update and will be switched to read-only.</p>Natty repository available2011-04-29T16:52:31.637574+00:002011-04-29T16:52:31.543786+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2011-04-29:/+announcement/8251Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>The Medibuntu repository for Natty (11.04) is ready to be used with your freshly updated/installed Ubuntu distribution.</p>
<p>To enable the Medibuntu repository, follow the online documentation at <<a href="http://www.medibuntu.org/repository.php" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>www.medibuntu.<wbr/>org/repository.<wbr/>php</a>>.</p>
<p>Please report any bug you may encounter on <<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/medibuntu</a>>.</p>
<p>Thank you for using Medibuntu.</p>Maverick repository available2010-10-11T18:34:04.514023+00:002010-10-11T18:35:05.358033+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2010-10-11:/+announcement/6939Gauvain Pocentekhttps://launchpad.net/~gpocentek<p>The Medibuntu repository for Maverick (10.10) is ready to be used with your freshly updated/installed Ubuntu distribution.</p>
<p>Some packages have been removed for this release:<br/>
* googleearth<br/>
* realplayer<br/>
* gizmo5</p>
<p>These softwares can easily be installed following the documentation provided on their respective websites. They will still be maintained for earlier versions.</p>
<p>Please report any bug you may encounter on <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/medibuntu</a></p>
<p>Thank you for using Medibuntu.</p>Frontend server moved successfully2010-10-11T17:55:50.896432+00:002010-10-11T17:55:50.713137+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2010-10-11:/+announcement/6938Lionel Le Folgochttps://launchpad.net/~mrpouit<p>The main server has been moved to a new host last week, and the list of active mirrors updated, resulting in several packages being unreachable (404 errors).</p>
<p>Everything should back online now, sorry for the inconvenience. If you are still experiencing errors, please flush your DNS cache prior to reporting any bug.</p>Ubuntu 9.04 reaches end-of-life on October 23, 20102010-10-11T17:50:43.290748+00:002010-10-11T17:50:43.246255+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2010-10-11:/+announcement/6937Lionel Le Folgochttps://launchpad.net/~mrpouit<p>As written by Robbie Williamson, the support period of Ubuntu 9.04 will be over on October 23, 2010. Consequently, Medibuntu's repository for Ubuntu 9.04 will no longer receive any update and will be switched to read-only at that time.</p>Ubuntu 8.10 reaches end-of-life on April 30, 20102010-04-30T17:40:12.014613+00:002010-04-30T17:40:11.858965+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2010-04-30:/+announcement/5725Lionel Le Folgochttps://launchpad.net/~mrpouit<p>As written by Steve Langasek at <<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-March/000130.html" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/lists.<wbr/>ubuntu.<wbr/>com/archives/<wbr/>ubuntu-<wbr/>announce/<wbr/>2010-March/<wbr/>000130.<wbr/>html</a>>, Ubuntu 8.10 reaches end-of-life today. Therefore, our repository for Ubuntu 8.10 is switched to a read-only mode (no more updates).</p>Main server back online2010-04-21T19:11:21.627250+00:002010-04-21T19:15:15.497297+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2010-04-21:/+announcement/5650Lionel Le Folgochttps://launchpad.net/~mrpouit<p>The server hosting the main archive has been restarted a few minutes ago (apparently, the culprit was the network driver that had crashed). Everything should be back to normal in a few hours, when all mirrors are in sync.</p>
<p>Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience.</p>Main server down2010-04-21T08:45:24.184882+00:002010-04-21T08:46:23.257944+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2010-04-21:/+announcement/5648Lionel Le Folgochttps://launchpad.net/~mrpouit<p>The main front-end providing <<a href="http://packages.medibuntu.org" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>packages.<wbr/>medibuntu.<wbr/>org</a>> is currently down. It might be brought back online in the next hours/days.</p>
<p>In the meantime, you can still access Medibuntu packages by using one of the workarounds explained in the bug report: <<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+bug/565810/comments/6" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/medibuntu/<wbr/>+bug/565810/<wbr/>comments/<wbr/>6</a>> and <<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+bug/565810/comments/12" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/medibuntu/<wbr/>+bug/565810/<wbr/>comments/<wbr/>12</a>>.</p>
<p>Please do not file new bug reports or questions on Launchpad about this issue, we are already aware of the problem. Thanks.</p>
<p>Sorry for the inconvenience.</p>
<p>(more info available at <<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+bug/565810" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/medibuntu/<wbr/>+bug/565810</a>>)</p>Programmed removal of Skype packages2009-12-09T22:19:55.015729+00:002009-12-09T22:19:54.908293+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-12-09:/+announcement/4539Lionel Le Folgochttps://launchpad.net/~mrpouit<p>Skype packages (skype, skype-common, skype-static and skype-static-oss) are scheduled for removal.</p>
<p>For the moment, they are still available, although they have been moved temporarily on our staging areas (hardy-staging, intrepid-staging, jaunty-staging and karmic-staging). As soon as new deb packages are available on <<a href="http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>www.skype.<wbr/>com/download/<wbr/>skype/linux/<wbr/>choose/</a>> (according to skype developers, in a few days), they will be removed from our repository.</p>
<p>Users who want to install skype are now advised to use directly the packages available on Skype's website.</p>
<p>For more information, please refer to the bug report tracking this issue <<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/medibuntu/+bug/494564" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/medibuntu/<wbr/>+bug/494564</a>>.</p>Retirement of the lpia architecture for lucid2009-11-27T20:18:09.998559+00:002009-11-27T20:18:09.951066+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-11-27:/+announcement/4440Lionel Le Folgochttps://launchpad.net/~mrpouit<p>Following the announcement on the end of support for lpia on future Ubuntu releases (<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-November/000643.html" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/lists.<wbr/>ubuntu.<wbr/>com/archives/<wbr/>ubuntu-<wbr/>devel-announce/<wbr/>2009-November/<wbr/>000643.<wbr/>html</a>), the lpia architecture has been dropped from Medibuntu lucid.</p>Support for 'powerpc' architecture dropped2009-09-27T09:26:56.018215+00:002009-09-27T09:26:55.919181+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-09-27:/+announcement/3884Lionel Le Folgochttps://launchpad.net/~mrpouit<p>As we don't have any package builder for 'powerpc' anymore, support for this architecture will be dropped in Medibuntu karmic 9.10 and later releases.</p>Medibuntu packages for Ubuntu 8.042008-04-24T16:12:10.490539+00:002008-04-24T16:12:10.445504+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-04-24:/+announcement/368Lionel Le Folgochttps://launchpad.net/~mrpouit<p>The Medibuntu Team is proud to announce the Medibuntu packages for Ubuntu 8.04.</p>