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title: Ubuntu wallpapers
description: In case anyone is missing their favourite wallpapers from Ubuntu 9.10
  (Karmic Koala) in 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) there is good news!The ubuntu-wallpapers-extra
  package is installable from the universe repository. In order to install it from
  the Soft […]
url: https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-wallpapers
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21 April 2010

# Ubuntu wallpapers

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In case anyone is missing their favourite wallpapers from Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) in 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) there is good news!

The ubuntu-wallpapers-extra package is installable from the universe repository. In order to install it from the Software Center, make sure your software sources have the "Community-maintained Open source software (universe)" enabled and then install "ubuntu-wallpapers-extra".

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