BURG Boot loader installation, themeing & more gets even easier with BURG Manager app

By , Published July 14, 2010

The process of installing BURG – the easy way to get a graphical, good-looking bootloader - has been made easier thanks to a new 'BURG Manager' application which provides users with a graphical front-end for configuring and managing various aspects of their bootloader.

Features include:

  • Install Burg, Burg-themes and a Burg emulator
  • Set timeout
  • Change theme
  • Set the screen resolution
  • Browse & install new BURG themes
  • Remove Burg
  • Restore Grub2
  • Set the default operating system

Download

Easy one-click install .deb files can be found over on the projects home page @ this link.

Alternatively you can add the official repository for the application, thus ensuring you remain up-to-date with the latest fixes and features. To do this open a terminal and enter the following commands carefully and as root where needed.

  • echo “deb http://www.sourceslist.eu/repo/ubuntu lucid main non-free” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
  • wget http://www.sourceslist.eu/?download=public.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
  • sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install burg-manager

Once installed you will find the BURG Manager in the Application > System menu

Finally€¦

To finish off here is a pretty swish video of the application in action from the developers themselves: -

BURG Manager in action

Related posts:

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  2. Dark Shine BURG Theme adds transpicuous vibrancy to your boot screen
  3. Get Animated, Themed, Icon Only GRUB Menu Using BURG – now simple to use!
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  • http://twitter.com/Shuninzo Sébastien Michel

    I’ve got this error when I add the repository :E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 49 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list

    UPDATE: with the command “deb http://www.sourceslist.eu/repo/ubuntu lucid main non-free” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list, the ” ” are added in the document, so I just had to delete them.

  • http://twitter.com/Shuninzo Sébastien Michel

    I’ve got this error when I add the repository :E: Type ‘“deb’ is not known on line 49 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list

    UPDATE: with the command “deb http://www.sourceslist.eu/repo/ubuntu lucid main non-free” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list, the ” ” are added in the document, so I just had to delete them.

    • http://twitter.com/JonahCiccone JonahCiccone

      I’m having the same problem, would you mind elaborating on the fix, I can’t quite get it to work.

  • http://twitter.com/ingalex81 Alessandro Lanave

    thanks for your consideration :-)

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7XOKINTMBJF2YNYT37HHPOWF5A RAJESH

    Quick fix:1)Open a terminal and type sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list2)Go to the line specified in the error message3)Remove all the quotes(if present) in that line4)Run the last command given above againThe reason is the first command given above is little buggy. No quotes are allowed in the sources.list file

    • http://sinisterstuf.hostzi.com sinisterstuf

      are you sure it’s not because, like a lot of fancy text on omgubuntu, the quotes, which are usually just “and” are on this site “and” which are not recognised by the terminal, it expects “. Personally I think the site should have a different style for code that doesn’t replace “” with “” and doesn’t replace x with × etc so that code can be copied and pasted into the terminal without need for modification!

  • http://twitter.com/TravHoog Travis Hoogendoorn

    To the author: Thanks for this article, but please edit the bugs from the code so others don’t continue to make the mistake with the quotations. Most people are going to type in the buggy code without reading the comments, as I did. Again, thanks.

  • http://twitter.com/jerboamuaddib Jerboa Muad’Dib

    Ur … everything gone?

  • Anonymous

    BURG site is down. :(

  • http://twitter.com/Jeddycakes Jed Lampitt

    Mate,
    As much as I love this site for its info, tweaks and how-to’s, its bloody irresponsible to leave some incorrect code up for people to inadvertently feed into their terminal. Thanks to Rajesh, its very easily fixable, but its been 2 months odd and you STILL haven’t removed the ” ” from the original post??
    Come on!

  • http://twitter.com/ingalex81 Alessandro Lanave

    released version 1.1.0: http://www.sourceslist.eu/burg-2/burg-manager/released-burg-manager-1-1-0/
    now avaible also for Archlinux

    • Anonymous

      I have no idea why i couldn’t download it from the server. is it still working now? can somebody email the deb package to me
      thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/ingalex Alessandro Ingalex Lanave
 
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