Get Applications That Didn’t Make The Ubuntu CD Available In One Download with ‘B-Sides’

By , Published November 29, 2009

€œB-Sides€ installs a selection of software that €œdidn't make the Ubuntu disc€ but €œcomplements€ the Ubuntu desktop well. Just like a B-side on a music CD!

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Keeping with Ubuntu’s ‘one application per task’ rule it doesn't add extra browsers, more music players or another photo management applications but rather new applications a user might benefit from. (So no obscure software, either!)

What you get

€œB-Sides€ installs the following software: -

  • Gwibber
  • GNOME Do
  • PiTiVi
  • Cheese Simple
  • CCSM
  • Jokosher
  • Restricted Extras
  • Miro
  • OpenOffice (For Ooo Apps Not Installed €“ Formula, Etc)
  • Inkscape
  • Gnome X-Chat
  • Got To Gnome (task management)
  • PyRoom (full screen text editor)
  • GAiksaurus (Thesaurus)
  • Vim
  • OGMRip (Ripping software)
  • Adblock Firefox Add-on
  • Droid & Liberation Fonts
  • Gimp
  • GnomeScan
  • Extra themes and backgrounds
  • Déjà Dup (Backup tool)

You can install of this great software from the B-Sides PPA which is only available for Karmic.

PPA:

https://edge.launchpad.net/~b-sides/+archive/ppa

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Navneeth

    If it’s only for Karmic, then why does it include GIMP?!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      The PPA is only for Karmic.

      • Anonymous

        But the GIMP is included by default in Karmic – I think that’s what Navneeth is getting at!

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          OpenOffice also comes with Karmic and an update of that is included so i don’t see the issue. Just as Gwibber and PiTiVi will come with Lucid.

          This application, obviously, will be more “useful” for Lucid users but development has to start somewhere.

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    This is basically just a meta-package, surely it isn’t difficult to install what you want from the ubuntu software centre or synaptic and you can be more selective aswell. I add the medibuntu repos to get even more software that isn’t available in the default distro/repos, like Google Earth, libdvdcss, various codecs etc.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      The whole idea of this is to make it easy for people – i.e. one download = a ton more software. grandpa might be confused by the software store, not knowing what he wants to install etc. This provides him with a slew of applications that “compliment” Ubuntu.

  • aeischeid

    this is a really great idea! not usable for everyone obviously, but great for new users, and just to simplify making a fresh install more feature complete. I think ubuntu should include some packages like this that are slightly less generic, such as ‘multimedia’, ‘graphic-design’, ‘programmer’, ‘social junkie’ etc.

    wasn’t there some talk about that for 10.04?

  • Anonymous

    Is there a way to write a CD containing these packages?
    It would be much easier to install ubuntu to offline machines.

    Or is there another/better way?

  • Anonymous

    Ooohhh, a “backyp” tool. ;D

  • Mohan

    Awesome, hey d0od you need to separate Cheese and Simple CCSM.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      thanks.

  • https://launchpad.net/~jorge jorge

    Thanks for the post about b-sides! “openoffice.org” is there to pull in the full OOo packages (not all of them ship on the CD.

    Good points about gimp, I’ll probably just leave it in for now (it doesn’t hurt anything to have it in there) and as decisions get made for lucid I’ll split them into release-specific packages.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Re: Ooo – Oh of course! That’s so logical now i think about it. I uninstall all but writer so i forget what comes as standard.

      “B-Sides” is such a great idea btw – i’m surprised no-one really thought of something similar sooner. (And i love the fact Jokosher is included! Woo! =D )

  • Anonymous

    So say I wanted to keep a PPA on the net with my list of applications, and instead of re-installing them all each time I reinstall Ubuntu, can I just add my PPA and it’ll automagically download all my applications? Sort of like a personal B-Side.

    http://www.interesting.co.nz

 
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