On 28/06/10 19:21, Steve wrote:
Also, how is it possible to know (other than the approved Mint/Ubuntu repositories) which repositories/software is going to be ok, I feel like I may be missing out on stuff and in any case even in the approved repos they have disclaimers.
I'd say that the official repositories for at least Ubuntu are now so extensive that you have to start to question why a given package isn't in there.
Mostly it will be because it is either very unstable, has legal issues or is so far off the general radar that nobody has bothered to maintain a ubuntu package.
Generally unless you have a specific need these things are best avoided, particularly by new users. Also if anything is going to give you a problem at distribution upgrade time it will be the 3rd party repositories.
I'd stick with the official repositories as much as you can.