How do I enable the “partner” repository?

Question

I keep seeing places refer to the "partner" repository as a place I can get software, how can I enable this repository? Please specify how to do this graphically and via command line.

Answer 1

GUI Way:

Click on the ubuntu button, then search for "Software Sources" and go to the "Other Software" tab.

Command Line Way:

• Open the sources.list file: gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

• Add the partner repositories by removing the # in front of the following lines (maverick is the version of your Ubuntu installation, it may differ)

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

• Save and Close.

• Resynchronize the package index files from their sources: sudo apt-get update

• Official documentation for reference

Answer 2

The simplest way to enable "partner" repository:

sed -i "/^# deb .*partner/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list && apt-get update

Answer 3

To enable the partner repository from the command line, edit /etc/apt/sources.list:
sudoedit /etc/apt/sources.list and remove the # from the beginning of these two lines:

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

So they are like this:

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

Then update your apt cache: sudo apt-get update.

Answer 4

TERMINAL just to make it easier, copy and paste this one command:

sed 's/\# deb http\:\/\/archive\.canonical\.com\/ubuntu natty partner/deb http\:\/\/archive\.canonical\.com\/ubuntu natty partner/' /etc/apt/sources.list | sed 's/\# deb-src http\:\/\/archive\.canonical\.com\/ubuntu natty partner/deb-src http\:\/\/archive\.canonical\.com\/ubuntu natty partner/' - > /tmp/newfile && sudo mv -f /tmp/newfile /etc/apt/sources.list

Answer 5

TERMINAL version, just copy and paste this commands to activate the partners repository (skype, etc):

DISTRO=`cat /etc/*-release | grep DISTRIB_CODENAME | sed 's/.*=//g'`
sudo sed -i 's/\(# \)\(deb .*ubuntu '${DISTRO}' partner\)/\2/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get -y update

@ERGuille: FTFY, with a cleaner version