Next time you are faced with re-building your sources.list file in Ubuntu, visit the Ubuntu sources.list generator and populate your sources.list file.

Ubuntu Tweak 0.4.9 has been released, a great application for tweaking settings in Ubuntu (Hardy, Intrepid, Jaunty or the latest development Karmic). From this version, Ubuntu Tweak has different package for i386 and amd64 and works for Karmic too.

Among the improvements and new features:

Today i came across this interesting post about Ubuntu Installation Report Generator so I thought of giving it a try.Installation Report Generator is a small application, developed with Python + GTK, which helps user to gather informations about his hardware and software configuration, in order prepare an installation report.

So you were playing with your Apt sources.list and somehow ruined it. No matter how hard you try you cannot get it back. Every time you try to install a package you get error messages. Now what?

Here is the content sources.list through which you can install any necessary applications. So delete the whole content of your sources list and replace it with the this content (below).

Do this at your own risk. Modify the default Ubuntu sources.list only if you understand what you're doing.

If you want add a ppa repository , you need to add some lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and also need to add the GPG key. I think it not easy for beginners. Now See a simple technique to add ppa with

A somewhat simple init script generator for Linux or Unix. Created 2 years ago, but needed some retooling before being released into the wild.

Building distro-specific packages is not one of the strengths of most developers. The KDE OBS Generator should solve this problem with the help of openSUSE Build Services.