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How do I activate the netbook edition of 10.04?

Asked by Owen Peery

I just successfully installed 10.04, yay. I am on a netbook and wanted to try the netbook version. I thought I read somewhere that it is part of the regular 10.04 release. If that is true, how do I activate it? If not, since I already have 10.04 installed, what do I do to install a netbook version? I am on a 10" netbook so it is right on the edge as to whether I need it or not so I want to see how it works. I am relatively new to Ubuntu so be explicit if possible or give me links and I am happy to read and do myself.

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George Standish (george-standish-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Owen,

NBE is not part of the regular Ubuntu Desktop installation.

You could install the meta-package "ubuntu-netbook-remix" to install it on your current Ubuntu install.

Good luck,
George

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Owen Peery (okpeery) said : 		#2

What does installing the meta package mean? Will that be the full version?

Do I do that in terminal? How?

Thanks

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

A metapackage is a package made of other packages, a true package like leafpad is an actual program, a metapackage is a collection of packages and basically makes installing lots of packages easier (like ubuntu-desktop or ubuntu-restricted-extras). Removing the metapackage does not remove the system and many user (understandably) freak out when they see apt-get threatening to remove the "ubuntu-desktop" package but this will actually affect nothing.

The ubuntu-netbook-remix package will pull down all the things you need in one go to make the remix go, after you install it log off, then change your session to the netbook remix and log on. You will have the full netbook remix desktop

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Owen Peery (okpeery) said : 		#4

Thanks that explains it a bit better. I think I may have solved the problem though, I used terminal to add a repository, can't believe it is not already part of the package but

sudo apt-get-repository ppa/netbook-remix-team/ppa

Then in synaptic I could add Ubuntu Netbook Edition, when restarted that's what I had.

The only problem I guess is that I can't boot into Ubuntu or UNE, it is UNE until I disactivate the package. That's fine with me, but maybe there was a better way.