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There are several options for posters to generate their links as links that will open the software centre.There are several options for posters to generate their links as links that will open the software centre. The basis behind all of them is linking to http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/<package-name>.

There have been discussions about making this automatic (eg to detect apt-get install ...) but my attempt to do this failed. The major problem is you'll also see add-apt-repository scattered around the site and this can be a major part to getting some things working. Adding apt repos is not possible via a link (for good reason!).

There are several options for posters to generate their links as links that will open the software centre. The basis behind all of them is linking to http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/<package-name>.

There have been discussions about making this automatic (eg to detect apt-get install ...) but my attempt to do this failed. The major problem is you'll also see add-apt-repository scattered around the site and this can be a major part to getting some things working. Adding apt repos is not possible via a link (for good reason!).

There are several options for posters to generate their links as links that will open the software centre. The basis behind all of them is linking to http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/<package-name>.

There have been discussions about making this automatic (eg to detect apt-get install ...) but my attempt to do this failed. The major problem is you'll also see add-apt-repository scattered around the site and this can be a major part to getting some things working. Adding apt repos is not possible via a link (for good reason!).

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There are several options for posters to generate their links as links that will open the software centre. The basis behind all of them is linking to http://apt.ubuntu.com/p/<package-name>.

There have been discussions about making this automatic (eg to detect apt-get install ...) but my attempt to do this failed. The major problem is you'll also see add-apt-repository scattered around the site and this can be a major part to getting some things working. Adding apt repos is not possible via a link (for good reason!).