{"id":945,"date":"2013-07-18T09:50:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T09:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=945"},"modified":"2013-08-09T10:10:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T10:10:59","slug":"enable-getdeb-playdeb-repository-in-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/enable-getdeb-playdeb-repository-in-linux-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable GetDeb, PlayDeb Repository on Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getdeb is an unofficial project which provides the latest open-source and freeware applications for Ubuntu Linux, and PlayDeb provides games. As Ubuntu based Linux distribution, Linux Mint users are available to install software from this repository.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Install \/ add \/ enable GetDeb &#038; PlayDeb repository on Linux Mint<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To get started, go to Start menu, search and open <b>Software Sources<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/software-sources.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/software-sources-300x83.jpg\" alt=\"software-sources\" width=\"300\" height=\"83\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/software-sources-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/software-sources.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Navigate to Additional repositories, check the box where it says &#8216;archive getdeb.net&#8217;. Click &#8216;update the cache&#8217; button to update package lists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/enable-getdeb-repository.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/enable-getdeb-repository.jpg\" alt=\"enable getdeb repository\" width=\"400\" height=\"183\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-948\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/enable-getdeb-repository.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/enable-getdeb-repository-300x137.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p>If it is not there in your Linux Mint edition, click &#8216;Add a new repository&#8217; and type in <\/p>\n<pre>deb http:\/\/archive.getdeb.net\/ubuntu <b>raring<\/b>-getdeb apps games<\/pre>\n<p>In the line, change <b>raring<\/b> to yours based Ubuntu release code name.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Linux Mint 14 Nadia based on Ubuntu 12.10 <b>quantal<\/b><br \/>\nLinux Mint 13 Maya based on Ubuntu 12.04 <b>precise<\/b><br \/>\nLinux Mint 12 Lisa based on Ubuntu 11.10 <b>oneiric<\/b><br \/>\nLinux Mint 11 Katya based on Ubuntu 11.04 <b>natty<\/b><br \/>\nLinux Mint 10 Julia based on Ubuntu 10.10 <b>maverick<\/b><br \/>\nLinux Mint 9 Isadora based on Ubuntu 10.04 <b>lucid<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And get the key by running below commands in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T):<\/p>\n<pre>wget -q -O- http:\/\/archive.getdeb.net\/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -<\/pre>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getdeb is an unofficial project which provides the latest open-source and freeware applications for Ubuntu Linux, and PlayDeb provides games. As Ubuntu based Linux distribution, Linux Mint users are available to install software from this repository. Objectives: Install \/ add \/ enable GetDeb &#038; PlayDeb repository on Linux Mint Enjoy! To get started, go to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[159,166,167,264,193],"class_list":["post-945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-mint","tag-install","tag-linux","tag-mint","tag-playdeb","tag-to"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}