Can add-apt be used for Github repos?
I know that this adds a ppa from launchpad:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
I would like to use a Github repository instead of launchpad. Is this possible?
How?
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PPAs in Launchpad are connected to People/Teams, rather than projects. Your best bet is to click on the "Maintainer" for the project ("Cardapio Team" in this case):
From there, follow the link on under "Personal Package Archives" on their profile page. There may be multiple options here, you'll just have to use your best guess based on their names.
The name of the PPA will be on this page:
However, this is not guaranteed to work, as the developers can use any PPA they want for their project. It could be ppa:someunrelatedteam/foobar for all you know. There is no way to know for sure from the Launchpad project.
Alternatively, googling "[project name] PPA" tends to give good results.
The easiest thing to do is probably to do so using bzr-git.
Clone the repository that is currently on GitHub:
$ bzr branch git://github.com/umpirsky/revision-monitor
After that you can push it to Launchpad, assuming you've created a project on Launchpad named 'revision-monitor':
$ cd revision-monitor
$ bzr push lp:revision-monitor
Best Answer
Debian package repositories (which are what PPAs are, but with specific packages in them for Ubuntu releases, and not Debian itself) are not the same as git repos. You can't use a git repo for an apt repository.
The main reason for this is because
gituses a special server designed to work with source code, and not binary packages. An apt repository server can be set up with a package manager backend and almost any web server, and is specifically designed to work with binary packages.