If you don’t want to use Ubuntu Studio but you still want to have the theme. You can install only the theme for your Ubuntu.
Step 1. Add ‘deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio feisty main‘ into your sources.list
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
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deb http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio feisty main
Step 2. Download ubuntustudio gpg key
What is gpg key?
Gpg is part of the ‘web of trust‘ concept. It is a good security practice to validate public keys that you receive. The most important thing is build the historical evidence necessary for anyone to read.
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ wget http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add –
–10:38:19– http://archive.ubuntustudio.org/ubuntustudio.gpg
=> `-‘
Resolving archive.ubuntustudio.org… 208.97.169.99
Connecting to archive.ubuntustudio.org|208.97.169.99|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 200 OK
Length: 1,710 (1.7K) [text/plain]
100%[====================================>] 1,710 8.65K/s
10:38:20 (8.62 KB/s) – `-‘ saved [1710/1710]
OK
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$
Step 3. Update your Repository
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo apt-get update
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Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-backports/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-backports/multiverse Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty-backports/restricted Sources
Fetched 10.3kB in 4s (2331B/s)
Reading package lists… Done
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$
Step 4. Install Ubuntustudio-look
The file size is 23MB, it will need long time if you use dial up connection for your internet..
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gtk2-engines-murrine ubuntustudio-gdm-theme ubuntustudio-icon-theme
ubuntustudio-session-splashes ubuntustudio-theme ubuntustudio-wallpapers
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gtk2-engines-murrine ubuntustudio-gdm-theme ubuntustudio-icon-theme
ubuntustudio-look ubuntustudio-session-splashes ubuntustudio-theme
ubuntustudio-wallpapers
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 4286kB of archives.
After unpacking 23.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntustudio.org feisty/main ubuntustudio-gdm-theme 0.4 [769kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe gtk2-engines-murrine 0.52-0ubuntu1 [40.1kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntustudio.org feisty/main ubuntustudio-icon-theme 0.1 [1920kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntustudio.org feisty/main ubuntustudio-theme 0.4 [14.2kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntustudio.org feisty/main ubuntustudio-session-splashes 0.4 [37.7kB]
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntustudio.org feisty/main ubuntustudio-wallpapers 0.4 [1498kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntustudio.org feisty/main ubuntustudio-look 0.4 [6898B]
Fetched 4286kB in 35s (121kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gtk2-engines-murrine.
(Reading database … 155160 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gtk2-engines-murrine (from …/gtk2-engines-murrine_0.52-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package ubuntustudio-gdm-theme.
Unpacking ubuntustudio-gdm-theme (from …/ubuntustudio-gdm-theme_0.4_all.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package ubuntustudio-icon-theme.
Unpacking ubuntustudio-icon-theme (from …/ubuntustudio-icon-theme_0.1_all.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package ubuntustudio-theme.
Unpacking ubuntustudio-theme (from …/ubuntustudio-theme_0.4_all.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package ubuntustudio-session-splashes.
Unpacking ubuntustudio-session-splashes (from …/ubuntustudio-session-splashes_0.4_all.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package ubuntustudio-wallpapers.
Unpacking ubuntustudio-wallpapers (from …/ubuntustudio-wallpapers_0.4_all.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package ubuntustudio-look.
Unpacking ubuntustudio-look (from …/ubuntustudio-look_0.4_all.deb) …
Setting up gtk2-engines-murrine (0.52-0ubuntu1) …
Setting up ubuntustudio-gdm-theme (0.4) …
Setting up ubuntustudio-icon-theme (0.1) …
Setting up ubuntustudio-theme (0.4) …
Setting up ubuntustudio-session-splashes (0.4) …
Setting up ubuntustudio-wallpapers (0.4) …
Setting up ubuntustudio-look (0.4) …
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$
Step 5. Check for latest ubuntustudio theme/icon/wallpappers update
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-theme ubuntustudio-icon-theme ubuntustudio-wallpapers
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
ubuntustudio-theme is already the newest version.
ubuntustudio-theme set to manual installed.
ubuntustudio-icon-theme is already the newest version.
ubuntustudio-icon-theme set to manual installed.
ubuntustudio-wallpapers is already the newest version.
ubuntustudio-wallpapers set to manual installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$
Step 6. Change your the theme
After all installation process is done, you can change your current theme to Ubuntu Studio theme.
Open ‘Theme Preferences’ screen:
System > Preferences > Theme
Find Ubuntustudio (A nice dark theme) in the view list box, click the Ubuntustudio title in the list box, then select close.
Done…
Hi,
I did scrupulously tried to do what you explained step by step for adding the studiobuntu theme and wallpapers,
but the archive.studiobuntu.org url simply doesn’t exist;
so nothing of what is explained works.
Please chek this and if necessary update the published info.
Thanx,
Osvaldo.
True, archive.ubuntustudio.org doesn’t exist, but if you update your sources and run sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look, it still works.
Downloading now.
I’ve been having the same problem, I tried updating my sources by sudo apt-get update and of course it doesn’t get any files from the ubuntustudio repository but I tried running sudo apt-get install ubuntustudio-look and it said, “Couldn’t find ubuntustudio-look”
Any help would be appreciated thank you
Chud
Its hosted on Canonical repositories