Alternative to manually install 3rd party repositories

There is an alternative to manually manage repositories and keys and that is to use extrepo

extrepo is a curated list of 3rd party repositories and keys and it's a debian package.
It's only been around a couple of years so I don't know how widely used it is yet.

Installation

To install it run

apt install extrepo Add repository

To add postgreSQL repository for example:

extrepo enable postgresql Disable repository

To disable a repository, for example:

extrepo disable postgresql Where do files go?

extrepo puts apt config files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d as you would manually but manages keys in it's own directory /var/lib/extrepo/keys

Repositories available

Currently these repositories are in there:

anydesk apertium-nightly apertium-release bareos belgium_eid_continuous brave_beta brave_nightly brave_release caddyserver consol debian_official dns-oarc docker-ce edge elbe eturnal eyrie fai feistermops gitlab_ce gitlab_ee gitlab_runner google_chrome google_cloud grafana grafana_beta grafana_enterprise grafana_enterprise_beta haproxy-2.8 i2pd janitor jellyfin jenkins jitsi-stable kea keybase kicksecure kicksecure_developers kicksecure_proposed kicksecure_testers lihas liquorix matrix mobian msteams neurodebian_software newrelic nginx node_12.x node_14.x node_16.x node_18.x notesalexp ooni openmodelica-contrib-nightly openmodelica-contrib-release openmodelica-contrib-stable openmodelica-nightly openmodelica-release openmodelica-stable openstack_antelope openstack_zed openvpn opera_stable opsi passbolt postgresql prosody proxmox-ceph-quincy proxmox-pve proxmox-pve8 r-project raspberrypi raspbian-addons realsense rspamd signal skype slack speedtest-cli spotify steam surface-linux sury syncevolution syncthing teamviewer_default teamviewer_preview torproject trinity vector vscode vscodium weechat whonix whonix_developers whonix_proposed whonix_testers winehq wire-desktop wire-internal-desktop wtf wtf-lts x2go x2go-extras x2go-lts x2go-nightly xpra xpra-beta yarnpkg zammad zulu-openjdk

Thanks, we are up and running again!

@matteo-nunziati
That is interesting, ftp works but not http
He could try changing apt to use ftp instead of http in sources.list

Trusty full sources.list only difference is I get the mx repos

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to # newer versions of the distribution. deb http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted deb-src http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the ## distribution. deb http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted deb-src http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe deb-src http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe deb http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe deb-src http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu ## security team. deb http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse deb-src http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse deb http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse deb-src http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features. ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team. deb http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb-src http://mx.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main restricted universe multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main restricted deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's ## 'partner' repository. ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users. # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party ## developers who want to ship their latest software. deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main

I think Landscape does this plus a lot more. I think it's free for 10 physical and 10 virtual machines, but I don't know the cost after that.

There are some Juju charms that you can create a Landscape setup with pretty easily.