Personal Package Archives for Ubuntu
Personal Package Archives (PPA) allow you to upload Ubuntu source packages to be built and published as an apt repository by Launchpad. You can find out more about PPAs and how to use them in our
help page.
Search user-contributed software packages published in any Ubuntu PPA.
launchpad.net is a site founded by Ubuntu some years ago, and it is here that many PPAs reside. SourceForge may have some involvement as well.
PPAs are an invention of Ubuntu (and are thus accessible from Linux Mint and others), and although Ubuntu is based on Debian, Debian itself and its derivatives such as antiX and MX-series eg MX-18, do NOT support the use of PPAs.
That being said, even if you get a warning about an "untrusted PPA", if that software is aready included, by the same author, in your Distro, you can trust it.
Most notable examples are
- Timeshift and
- Unetbootin
Timeshift is by Tony George, working out of India through teejeetech.in
Tony also produces
Aptik, UKUU and many others, all available by applying his PPA. Timeshift itself ships installed now with Linux Mint, Linux Lite, and one Manjaro spinoff.
You can read my Thread on Timeshift here -
https://www.linux.org/threads/timeshift-similar-solutions-safeguard-recover-your-linux.15241/
Unetbootin is produced for many years now by Geza Kovacs. It has been in the Repositories for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and the like, for probably 5 years or more that I am aware of.
An advantage to having a PPA installed is its being captured in your Synaptic Package Manager, and thus getting both the latest, plus updates.
With Unetbootin, for example, you might have v6.08 or 6.12 in your Repos, whereas the PPA provides for
v6.67.
If you are in doubt about a PPA, start a Thread here on it, we can look into it.
Cheers, and back to snapcraft - thanks Capta
Wiz