PLEASE. Not Automatix AGAIN.

If you want to contribute to Ubuntu, contribute *direclty*. So it has this by *default*. Don't re-create Automatix which screwed Ubuntu very badly over with it's poor-quality scripts.

Package a program if it's not in Add/Remove. But otherwise, looking at the list, the majority of these programs are already in Ubuntu. Why mess up users?

In general, Automatix scripts *can't* be included in ubuntu or debian directly. They tend to include less-than-free or even less-than-legal-(everywhere) code, and thus can't be distributed with ubuntu.

Automatix is what it is for a reason.

While I like the idea of having an easy way to install Songbird, I'd rather somebody put the packages in the official Ubuntu Packages...
Is there any reason someone can't do that instead?

Kit, you may be interested in the Launchpad Personal Package Archive service, then!
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/ ppas

Found one by Fabien Tassin which appears to have a recent version of Songbird:
https://launchpad.net/~fta/ archive

Unfortunately, it is also surrounded by piles of others. Lots of the time, a team will publish a PPA specific to their project (as it should be); for example, Banshee 1.x is available for supported distros compiled automatically for all supported architectures straight from the Banshee Team's PPA.

My big problem with Autmatix was this kept changing my repositories, which was outrageous.

I'm on a metered cap with my ISP, but anything that I download from their own repositories doesn't count against that cap. So, naturally, I had my repositories pointed towards there. Who knows how much of my data allocation I wasted before I discovered Automatix had unilaterally changed this. (It gave no warning about it, as I recall).

This is one of my biggest pet peeves ..... You guys calling the OS "Ubuntu Ultimate Edition" when it is NOT part of the "Ubuntu" distorbutions. As a matter of fact, The Operating System that you refer to as "Ubuntu Ultimate Edition" had to change its name from that quite a while ago upon Connicals request to remove any and all reference to "Ubuntu" what so ever. This means that there is NO logo sharing with Ubuntu, and the name "Ubuntu" had to be removed. The author of "Ultimate Edition" did so and this seperates "Ultimate Edition" completely from "Ubuntu"
...... Lets get this straight people- it is called "Ultimate Edition" and nothing else. I think that some credit should be given to the maker of the "Ultimate Edition" in this article as well, after all "TheeMahn" is the creator of Ultamatix as well as Ultimate Edition. Thanks for the understanding. Correcting this error would be greatly appreciated.

wtg daddy! Also, for those concerned in the security risk, ultamatix has not ever borked my system, and belive me, i've tried it all. it's a very well-written piece of software.

Any script that uses "apt-get install|remove --force-yes --assume-yes" is dangerous. It can forcibly remove your entire software stack -- I've personally had to deal with very upset people who it's happened to.

Ultamatix uses the command nearly 200 times. Go figure the risk.

DO NOT USE THIS. IT IS HIGHLY BROKEN AND DANGEROUS.

I REPEAT... DO NOT USE THIS.

I like ultamatic a lot, ubuntu+ultamatic=perfect! It save me a lot of work!

well, i have been using ultamatix for quite a while now and have not run into any problems. Is there something i should beware while using it?