AptUrl Proxy
For all those websites and programs that allows you to post links, but are broken enough not to allow you to post anything other than http links I have created the AptUrl proxy:
Test it out: Install Inkscape
Simply put the link http://doctormo.org/install.pl?package_name and your viewers will be referred to the correct apt uri. I’ve made this in response to the bad support for links in deviantArt, seriously who would detect the use of http alone as being a link to http://, the mind boggles at what kind of code they have for link detection.
Anyway this gets around that little problem and you might also find it useful for your communities.
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Tags: apt, debian, install, link, Ubuntu, url
http://www.apturl.net/ seems to be out-of-date. What a shame it =( when not on apt-url enabled computers it would redirect to a html page describing the package.
Sounds like the same thing, but with more beef to it. Shame they didn’t automate it, or indeed stick it into ubuntu.com’s apt server.
Nice idea, but someone got there first
http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/inkscape
Very nice, should be an official proxy on Ubuntu.
apt.ubuntu.com?
And the question… why didn’t I know about it? odd. I even did a look around for the functionality before spending 2 mins on the script
Yeah it is not very well advertised, the only reason I found it was by poking about in software-center’s code
http://apt.ubuntu.com only works for Firefox. Us chromies are SOL.
SOL? And yes I know they don’t work for chrome… yet.
@doctormo I think this is what he means: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shit_out_of_luck
https://launchpad.net/apturlredirector