Installing FOSSology 2.0 on Ubuntu¶

Version 2 of Fossology is still at beta stage and thus should be used with caution.

Installing from packages¶

Ubuntu packages are available are available from the FOSSology project repositories for Lucid Lynx LTS (10.04), Natty Narwhal (11.04),Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot (11.10) in both 32 and 64 bit versions.

To install the unofficial packages, add to your /etc/apt/sources.list file the line matching your ubuntu version:

For Lucid

http://fossology.org/releases/2.0.0-rc1/Ubuntu/ 10.04 contrib

For Natty

http://fossology.org/releases/2.0.0-rc1/Ubuntu/ 11.04 contrib

For Oneiric

http://fossology.org/releases/2.0.0-rc1/Ubuntu/ 11.10 contrib

Then update the apt sources and install

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fossology # this will also upgrade FOSSology if a previous version is already installed