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Welcome to the tutorial guide. The tutorial guide will provide a user with guidance and instructions on how to replace Windows with Kubuntu 9.04 by setting up a Kubuntu 9.04 desktop. The guide will include configuration of additional repositories.

Let’s start with configuration of additional repositories. It is good to be aware of the packages that are not available in the stardard Kubuntu repositories. For example, Adobe Reader is not available in the standard Kubuntu repositories so in order to make it available, you need to add the Medibuntu repository.

- the first step is to open a terminal by going to System and the choosing Terminal
- now, we need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list…
sudo kate /etc/apt/sources.list
- the next step is to enable the jaunty partner repository by running following:
[…]
## 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 jaunty partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jaunty partner
[…]

- now, please save the file.
- If you would like to enable the Medibuntu repository, then please follow the steps as provided below::
- first of all, import the repository by running following command:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
- now, please import the gpg-key
- and update the package-list by running following command:
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude install medibuntu-keyring && sudo aptitude update
- after that, please run following command:
sudo update-apt-xapian-index

If you have followed steps as mentioned in this tutorial guide then you would have successfully configured the repositories.