Here are some packages I would like to see added to Ubuntu’s repos.

Jan 23 2008

I know Amarok and Deluge and Firefox are the glamourous children of the packaging world, but there are a few packages I’d like to see added to Hardy. Packages that would make my professional life just a little bit easier.

  1. Zimbra: PHPgroupware and OpenGroupWare don’t cut it. Zimbra — I’ve seen a functioning system! — is nice, and has risen almost to the point of competing with MS Exchange. It would be simply wonderful to be able to apt-get this sucker.
  2. OpenBravo: Such an impressive piece of software. One of the few OS ERP projects with a nice website, a nice interface, and a lot of great features.
  3. VMWare Server: It was in the repos, then it disappeared. I have exactly two programs I need Windows to run, and I’d like to host one of our ageing Win 2000 servers as a virtual machine running in an actually stable environment.
  4. Bugzilla: Okay, this one is in the repos, but I simply can’t set it up properly. Maybe it’s just me.
  5. ERP5: Apparently pretty powerful, I bet there’re quite a few people who’d want to give this a whirl.

    6. That’s it for now. But I will be back with more…

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One response so far

  1. Peter Vander Klippe
    on 23 Jan 2008 at 10:42 am

    Good list.

    I looked into ERP5 before but it nothing seems current on their website. Is it still an active project? I really like the look of it because of its awesome Python/Zope backend.

    Oh, and VMWare Server is still in the repos. Canonical changed the name of the commercial repo to partner, so that may be why it disappeared for you.

    deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
    deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner

    Works for me. They do sometimes lag behind the new releases but it is properly packaged with the kernel modules.

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