How to install applications from GetDeb on Ubuntu

The Ubuntu repositories provide a wide range of applications which can be directly installed from their servers. However, there are many other good applications which are not included in the repositories. GetDeb is a popular service that makes many of these other applications available to install on Ubuntu. Installing an application from GetDeb is easy:

• Download and install the GetDeb package:

$ wget http://archive.getdeb.net/install_deb/getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb

• Update the APT cache with the list of packages from GetDeb:

$ sudo apt-get update

• You can now install any of the applications from GetDeb using apt-get install as usual.

Tried with: Ubuntu 14.04