Ubuntu – How to install ppa packages in an apt-get style

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I want to install ppa packages in a sudo apt-get install <program> style. I don't want to google for the ppa name and I don't want to execute add-apt-repository before executing apt-get. I just want to install a ppa package with one command like ppa install vim to get the newest vim ppa version.

Can you recommend me a tool?

Best Answer

Using add-apt-repository (or adding the deb lines to /etc/apt/sources.list manually, which is more-or-less the same thing) is the apt-get way. Apt needs to know what packages are available for installation, and for that to work it has to have a list of installable repositories. It's simply not feasible to search Launchpad for all PPAs for the most recent version, nor is that safe — I could create vim 99999999-9999 which hoses your entire system (debs install as root). Installing software from third party repositories is something you should be forced to think about.

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Yes, the line with the "ubuntulucid" is a typo, the original has those two seperated.

@sagarchalise: Thats exactly how I installed Chromium and that does work. However, I would like to have it build by apt-build instead of installing the binary version with apt-get. So it doen't work for me. Adding the repository again didn't work for me either.

EDIT

Solved! Seems like apt-build needs all deb-src repositories it should use inside /etc/apt/sources.list . By adding the PPA via apt-add-repository a separate file for each new repository gets created (inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d). So putting the two line directly into /etc/sources.list and running

sudo apt-build update && sudo apt-build --reinstall install chromium-browser

fixed the issue for me. Thanks for your ideas nonetheless!

EDIT²

This bugreport on launchpad seems related.

Ubuntu – How to use apt-get to install packages without one specify package

You can do

list=$(apt-cache --names-only search ^k3b-* | awk '{ print $1 }' | \
    grep -v bad-pkg)
sudo apt-get install $list

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