Greetings,

I've put together some experimental userlinux metapackages that will
install on Ubuntu (hoary only).

Metapackages which means all they do is install other
packages. Userlinux doesn't provide its users with seperate packages
of its own -- it uses whatever is in Debian. You can do now install
these on on Ubuntu and get a sort of Ubuntu-flavored Userlinux. :)

You can get them by adding this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list and
then updating and installing away:

  deb http://people.ubuntulinux.org/~mako/userlinux hoary main

I've had to clean these up and remove or change a few things to get
them to install on either Hoary on even in Debian sid (where they
claimed they worked). There is a lot more help they could get but I
wanted to minimze the delta between these and upstream so I've left a
number of things that are I think could be improved. I'll work with
upstream authors to help rectify most things.

For no good reason that I can tell, the meta-packages are i386
specific. I want fix this in all of them but I do not have source for
two metapackages (userlinux-server-base or userlinux-artwork) and
cannot rebuild these myself or provide source. I have emailed the
userlinux folks to see if I can get full source for their packages.

The metapackages that are available include:

  userlinux-artwork
  userlinux-base
  userlinux-desktop-base
  userlinux-dev
  userlinux-enterprise-desktop
  userlinux-im-server
  userlinux-mail-server
  userlinux-pbx-server
  userlinux-server-base
  userlinux-server-gui
  userlinux-server
  userlinux-soho-desktop
  userlinux-web-server

I have not bothered to work with the userlinux installer package since
we already have our own installer that we like a bit. :) You will
definitely need universe turned on to use these packages. I haven't
tested installing each of them on a fresh install but I have tested to
see that each one is installable.

Regards,
Mako

-- 
Benjamin Mako Hill
mako <at> canonical.com