Ubuntu – Can I get a package from a ppa that the distro doesn’t support

14.10ppaxubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pwr22/tomighty
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tomighty

I want this. This guy made a deb package out of the java original. Problem is I have 14.10 and a lot of apps don't work yet.

That's also why I'm trying to compile packages from git with little success as of yet.

Help is appreciated.

Best Answer

This a simple way for app's that don't need any source modification. I think this better when having many packages, instead of building all them locally (with many dependencies headache)

  1. Get a Launchpad account.

  2. On your user page, Create a new PPA

    Input url you want, display name, then activate

  3. Open PPA page of the wanted App → View package details

  4. At top right corner: Copy packages

    • Source: Select packages you want. If there are multi-releases for same package, choose the closest to the target release.
    • Destination PPA: PPA you just created.
    • Destination series: target release.
    • Copy options: Rebuild the copied sources
    • Copy Packages

  5. If it's built without problems, few minutes it will be ready for download from your PPA.

Copying a PPA package to other PPA to be build for different release

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