PPA are personal package archives that allows users and groups in launchpad to make packages available to the public. PPAs can be added with a terminal command or through Software Sources.
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Redirecting packages when migrating PPAs
I have some packages in a PPA and, now, have created a group PPA. Is there a way to put in a redirect such that anyone installing package foo from ppa:jrhacker/ppa can be redirected to ppa:initech/ppa ...
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Automatically disable a ppa
Is there a way to automatically delete or disable a ppa that does not work anymore?
When I do apt-get update I get a lot of error message regarding some ppas that cant be found.
I have disabled them ...
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Apache 2.4.2 ppa or normal pkg release date
So Apache 2.4.2 was released on April 17th. As of yet, it doesn't seem to be in any repos yet. All I can find out by googling is suggestions of building from the GIT source.
I'd rather not do this, ...
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Error Installing Grails - Unmet Dependencies
I am installing Grails on 12.10, using the instructions on grails.org, but am getting an error on the 3rd step, as outlined below.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:groovy-dev/grails
sudo apt-get ...
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Eclipse 4 with Oracle JDK7 on 12.04 x64?
Is it possible to Install Eclipse 4 and get it to work with Oracle JDK7 on Ubuntu 12.04 x64? The best way would be a PPA to apt-get upgrade newer versions. A "portable" istall would be okay, too.
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A question about “add-apt-repository”(gcc 4.7 or bumblebee)
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 in my notebook and I use C++. I want to use C++11, so I want to upgrade my gcc to gcc-4.7. I ran these commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo ...
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'apt-get update' fails when using proxy
Using apt-get update I am getting
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net precise/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch
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Can't install several development libraries
I can't install several packages. Here's what happened. I installed Ubuntu 12.04, added ppa:ricotz/testing and then upgraded to 12.10. My system works fine, but apt-get build-dep gnome-terminal for ...
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How can I manage ppa if I only have terminal access through ssh?
This would work if I had direct access to the server:
Is there a tool to update my PPA sources.list entries after upgrading?
But which are the underlying commands this tool uses?
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Launchpad fails to build a package for my PPA
I'm trying to build a package on Launchpad's Debian build system for PPAs but I'm having some issues with a certain package.
The package I'm trying to build (zorin-xwinwrap) contains a source C file ...
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PPAs not showing up in synaptic?
for some reason several PPAs are not visible in the side-panel of synaptic, nor are their apps available when searched for. but they are visible when clicking settings > repositories, and they all ...
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Should I update the Ubuntu release name for PPAs?
Does it matter that I have files like webupd8team-jupiter-precise.list in my /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder if I'm using raring? Should I update the sources inside to say raring instead of precise or ...
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Updating problems Ubuntu 12.10
Whenever I try to update my computer by opening the Update Manager I get this problem and it just closes. Can someone help me?
W:GPG error: http:/packages.medibuntu.org quantal InRelease: The ...
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Recent Qt repository
Is there any repository for latest Qt versions (recent version is 5.0.1 while ubuntu has 4.8) ?
PS
I found this PPA but it tagged as [deprecated]!!!, so I'm wondering what if there is official one ...
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How can I search available PPA packages and get a list sorted by version number?
It is possible to search through the available PPAs on this web page, but is there any way to perform this search and get a list of PPAs sorted according to the version number and/or date of the most ...
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Is there an easy way to automatically patch ubuntu sources as they become available and upload to a PPA?
I'm looking for a tool to do the following:
Automatically detect updates to a set of source packages (specifically gtk+2 and gtk+3)
download the source package
apply my own custom patches to the ...
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How to do a ppa for a java ant project?
I was doing a launchpad ppa for my ant project using jdeb
when i had the unpleasant surprise in the last step that ubuntu ppa actually builds the package from the repository, not just accepts signed ...
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How to fix “couldn't connect to host” error installing Unity Webapps?
I get the following errors when I try to install Unity Webapp on Ubuntu 12.04:
root@detro-X101H:/home/detro# sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webapps/preview
Traceback (most recent call last):
File ...
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PPA for Android Studio?
Android Studio was released a few days ago and it's still in early access preview, but I would like to know if there is any PPA I could add to my Ubuntu Raring to automatically keep it updated with ...
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How to edit a backported package before uploading it to a PPA?
I'm attempting to backport Clang 3.2 to Quantal from Raring. Thinking this would be a relatively painless process, I ran the following command:
backportpackage -s raring -d quantal -u ...
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Is nginx-extras supposed to have passenger compiled with it?
From the way the Launchpad description reads, the nginx-extras package should have the Passenger module installed with it.
However, when I install nginx-extras and try to enable Passenger, I get the ...
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Upgrade php5-gd on 12.04?
I'm working with the GD library for image manipulation, to which I need to create some transparent PNGs. Instead, I'm getting a black background. I've looked everywhere on how to generate a blank, ...
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using ppa-purge (with/without -i) results in suggesting removal of over 100 packages I'm fairly sure ARE available in the standard ubuntu repository
I foolishly added the kxstudio ppa quite some time ago. All seemed well for a few months, then problems started showing up, and have been nothing but a pain since. I've submitted several bug reports ...
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Ghdl in Ubuntu 13.04
Just installed Ubuntu 13.04 after formating my laptop, and for some reason I can not install ghdl. After adding the ppa with this command :
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pgavin/ghdl
everything is ...
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How can I install git-annex assistant
I install recently git annex in ubuntu 12.10 using APT. However, the package seems to be built without the assistant support.
Is there a PPA or another way of installing it ? I'd rather avoid ...
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Unable install cmake and ccmake?
So the thing is I'm trying to install Cmake and cmake-curses-gui.
I have updated the system with apt-get-update.
sudo apt-get install cmake
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency ...
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/usr/lib/apt/methods/ppa could not be found
After using Ubuntu 12.10 for two weeks I ran into problems updating the package database. Running sudo apt-get update returns the following error:
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/ppa could ...
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files missing from my PPA package
Summary: Uploaded by first attempt at a package to my PPA; after the launchpad build the package, I found that files are missing from the resulting deb package.
My PPA: ...
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Removed repository still being showed in synaptic origin section
I'm sure to have correctly purged a certaing ppa: it doesn't anymore appear in sources.list nor in sources.list.d folder.
It doesn't even appear in Synaptic's repository list, but if I open the ...
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Getting older packages from ppa
Can I install an older version of a specific package from a ppa? Specifically, I want to get an older version of xserver-xorg-video-intel (and dependencies) from xorg-edgers ppa. The reason is that ...
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Error:not file found grub rescue after installing ubuntu 12.10
I installed 12.10 and when it finished I restarted it, but it says at the beginning:
Error: file not found, Grub Rescue>
I then tried boot-repair and:
sudo add-apt-repository ...
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How to upload a scons project to a ppa?
my question is just what the title suggests.
There doesn't seem to be a way to upload builds to a ppa which have been build by the scons build system, but pretty much only traditional Makefile ...
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Why does apt-get update get a 403 from private-ppas for purchases in the software-center?
Here's the apt-get update output on the lines with a 403 error:
W: Failed to fetch ...
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Stuck removing ffmpeg from system due to package problems
I'd be very grateful to get a bit of support on the following situation:
Using 12.04, and I used the PPA of Jon Severinson for ffmpeg. I had a problem playing movies with MPlayer, so I decided to ...
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How can I install an older version of LOVE Games Development?
I want to play OMG!Words (Check the last game in the article) but I can't get it to run because it needs LOVE 0.7 and the ppa I added has the latest stable version, LOVE 0.8.0. My version of Ubuntu is ...
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How can I upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10 without a PAE enabled CPU?
I am running Ubuntu 12.04, and want to upgrade to 12.10. I understand that because my cpu doesn't have PAE, I need to install fake-pae. Because I am new to this, I don't quite know how to do this. I ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid and last PHP release
I'm trying to install the last PHP stable release as a package. Currently what ubuntu packages provides is:
PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.19 with Suhosin-Patch
However, I want at least PHP 5.3.3 or PHP ...
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13.04 Screen Scrolling at 1920x1080
I updated from 12.10 to 13.04 a couple days ago and I have a scrolling screen at 1920x1080. All of the other resolutions work fine though. 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Controller is what lspci is giving ...
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Gnome Screenshot Gray Screen in Ubuntu 13.04
I am running Ubuntu 13.04, with the Gnome3 PPA (ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3) enabled. Before installing updates from the PPA, gnome-screenshot works fine. After updating (from the PPA) to gnome-screenshot ...
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How prioritize the source of a package?
I wanna install Haguichi from the PPA recommended repository here, but looking a repository is there a Rhythmbox version too, it is possible add the repository only for Haguichi and that Rhythmbox ...
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error while installing gnome shell
I have a problem with gnome shell while I'm trying to install it by terminal.
This is the error message that I get:
emanodeh@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
[sudo] password ...
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libglib version confusion breaks update manager / gnome 3
I've been 'experimenting' with gnome 3 and conky on 12.04.01 and Gnome has fallen and it can't get up. Software Update no longer works. It seems to be a version dependency thing.
This appears now ...
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Upload for a PPA
I used quickly to pack my applications. When I type quickly share, the quickly upload my application using the public-1 as suffix. I tried ty upload using the dput ppa:name/repository changes but ...
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From launchpad code branch to ppa
I want to
Go to a known project in a launchpad branch
Modify a small parameter in the code/configuration
Build the new thing into a ppa
I get most of that, but the < source.changes > in
$ ...
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How can i use the ppas of 12.04 in 12.10?
There are many applications that i need in the new install but all the website have 12.04 tutorials and ppas...
how do i make them work for 12.10?
I really need them!
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Why do Launchpad act differently with 64 and 32bit packages?
I'm making Ubuntu packages from source code of a geology program. I can make debs on my pc and also Launchpad is able to make binary packages for 32-bit OS.
I noticed an strange behavior of ...
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Is there a script or application that creates a deb from a ppa address that adds the ppa to the system repositories?
I've created my ppa, uploaded my package and i'd now like a simple way for the users to add my 3rd party ppa to their repositories. I've seen some deb files around that add ppa, how are these created ...
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Distro in changelog header that matches all distros?
I'm doing a java package without native dependencies. I generate my changelog with hg using the pattern for the header:
header = 'app ({latesttag}.{latesttagdistance}) unstable; urgency=low\n'
this ...
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How to force compiz version?
I'm using a PPA for Compiz, because there are some really annoying bugs, which haven't got fixed in the official Ubuntu repos, but are in the PPA. (these bugs include the panel showing bug within full ...
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How to add google-talk plugin ppa using Y-PPA manager?
I tried adding:
ppa:google-talk
The url link too: http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/google-talkplugin
didnt work. I get the error:
The PPA you've entered is not valid
Please enter a valid ...
