Thanks to the work of Vincent Cheng, Mangler has been added to the Debian repositories. Packages are now available for Debian SID via the normal software installation process.

Ubuntu 11.10 has also picked up the package for inclusion, so the next release of Ubuntu will be able to use Mangler without having to deal with adding a PPA, compiling from source, or downloading the package manually.

I’m told that Linux Mint 12 will also include the package as part of the standard repositories as well.

Thanks again to Debian developer Vincent Cheng for getting this pushed through.

I’ve not heard a any word from a Fedora or OpenSUSE developer, so I’m not sure what (if any) progress is being made on those operating systems.