Ubuntu

Before downloading

Before downloading you should consult our privacy policy from the menu above, this will be shown to you again when you install the package for the first time.

You should also note this is an unofficial build of snowglobe, it is NOT provided by Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life.

This Snowglobe runs on the main Second Life Grid (AGNI), all transactions are real and all actions will be using your live Second Life account.

You should NEVER install a viewer that you do not trust fully

Repository details – Lucid

To use our repository add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Each repository includes the library dependencies (which are not on ubuntu yet) needed to run a release.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openmetaverse/ppa/ubuntu lucid main

You can then :-

apt-get update
apt-get install snowglobe
(or) apt-get install snowglobe2

As an alternative, you can add the above repository information directly into the Synaptic package manager go to Settings–>Repositories then select “Third party software”, then Add, and enter the above details. Then remember to press refresh, then you can find snowglobe using the search or by looking in the “Games and Amusements” section

Repository details – Karmic

To use our repository add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Each repository includes the library dependencies (which are not on ubuntu yet) needed to run a release.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openmetaverse/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

You can then :-

apt-get update
apt-get install snowglobe

As an alternative, you can add the above repository information directly into the Synaptic package manager go to Settings–>Repositories then select “Third party software”, then Add, and enter the above details. Then remember to press refresh, then you can find snowglobe using the search or by looking in the “Games and Amusements” section

GPG Keys and Signed repository

Launchpad PPA is now signing all new .deb files and the repository as a whole. This is for security reasons to ensure you are installing what you think you are installing and that the debs really did come from me. Therefore if you do not have the gpg key installed in your apt-key keyring you will get an error such as :-

GPG error: … Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available:
NO_PUBKEY 943ED04A50A40F50

Don’t panic!, all you need to do is tell apt-key about the key which can be done as follows :-

gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 0x50A40F50
gpg --export 0x50A40F50 | sudo apt-key add -

In either case you should recieve an “OK” message, and you can check the keys installed into apt-key via either

sudo apt-key list

Please DON’T run the actual gpg lines as sudo or you will end up with a gpg error about unsafe permissions. Please follow instructions above. You ONLY need to run apt-key as root (via sudo).