Converting your Feisty Fawn distro into Ubuntustudio

So ever since Ubuntustudio has come out, I have been trying to hit their site to look at the updates to their wiki. This whole time however it has been down due to serious traffic. So I wanted to know what differences there were in the regular Feisty Fawn release and ubuntustudio.

After doing some digging around I found the easiest way to get your existing Feisty Fawn release updated with all the packages and artwork all you had to do was the following.

From a terminal run these 2 commands:

sudo su -c ‘echo deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio feisty main >> /etc/apt/sources.list’

wget -q http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add – && sudo apt-get update

Packages in our repo:

* ardour – Digital audio workstation (graphical gtk2 interface) (This is Ardour 2)
* ardour-i686 – Digital audio workstation (graphical gtk2 interface) [i686] (This is Ardour 2)
* ubuntustudio-desktop – Makes up our base desktop install.
* ubuntustudio-audio – Ubuntu Studio audio package
* ubuntustudio-audio-plugins – Ubuntu Studio audio plugins package
* ubuntustudio-graphics – Ubuntu Studio graphics package
* ubuntustudio-video – Ubuntu Studio video package
* ubuntustudio-artwork – UbuntuStudio themes and artwork
* ubuntustudio-gdm-theme – Ubuntu Studio GDM theme
* ubuntustudio-icon-theme – UbuntuStudio Icon theme
* ubuntustudio-look – Ubuntustudio look (metapackage)
* ubuntustudio-session-splashes – Ubuntu Studio Session splashes
* ubuntustudio-sounds – Ubuntu Studio’s GNOME audio theme
* ubuntustudio-screensaver – Ubuntu Studio’s floating logo screensaver
* ubuntustudio-theme – Ubuntu Studio look – GTK and Metacity theme
* ubuntustudio-wallpapers – Ubuntu Studio – Wallpapers
* usplash-theme-ubuntustudio – Usplash theme for Ubuntustudio
* wired – Audio creation free software for Linux

So above are all the packages in the repo, depending upon what you wanted you could just “sudo apt-get isntall” anything or everything. So the next step is the artwork, because let’s be honest, it looks sexy as hell. So I found a nice little how to over at Complicated Mind.

His how to should give you the look and feel and sexyness you are looking for Just do the following:

1.Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and put this line:

deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio feisty main

2. Get the gpg for that repo

$ wget http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

3. Run

$ sudo apt-get update

4. If you want to install all the themes that is used in Ubuntu Studio, including gdm theme, wallpapers, icon theme, session splashes and gtk theme use this

$ sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look

I didn’t installed gdm theme and session splashes so i did this:

$ sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-theme ubuntustudio-icon-theme ubuntustudio-wallpapers

Hope this helps you all out, it did for me, feel free to send in a screenshot and I will post it…

Thanks,

~j