Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide

Unofficial Ubuntu 5.04 Starter Guide. Ubuntu is very easy to set up, so I don’t think you’ll need this site for basic setup. This is an excellent site, though, to help quickly set up addition stuff: Flash, realplay, mplayer, codecs, bittorent, jre, etc.
I found the Add-On Applications very useful. To use the Add-Ons You first need to add a few repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Detailed Here. Basically your are un-commenting existing lines of sources. Also, you are adding a few lines of sources:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiversedeb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary multiverse## Backportsdeb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-backports main universe multiverse restricteddeb http://ubuntu-backports.mirrormax.net/ hoary-extras main universe multiverse restricted

I’m not sure what these other sources are. I don’t know what the different designations are (main, universe, multiverse.)
I’m guessing multiverse is like Debian’s Sid/unstable, I’ll try to read up on it when I get a chance. I’m also guessing that the Backports source stuff has codecs and stuff that the Ubuntu Official source might not want to carry to avoid legal issues. I haven’t tried an “apt-get upgrade” with these new repositories, so you might want to remove them once you are done installing the packages.