Linux Add PPA Source

We often encounter adding software sources when using the Ubuntu installer, most commonly the PPA software source.

For example: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer

This is the command to add the SMPlayer PPA software source. What is a PPA? is a service provided by the Ubuntu Launchpad website that allows individual users to download and update as an apt source for other users. Usually earlier than Ubuntu Center, version updated to meet everyone's timely update use
In Https://launchpad.net
Search your Software
For example, I want to install wine, enter and press search. A series of wine-related software will appear below. We chose the first item: Wine team PPA: "Ubuntu wine Team". Depending on the keyword wine, ubuntu, and PPA you can determine this option.

The wine version is listed under the maintained package in wine, in front of the latest, For wine1.6, you can see the software and other related software, there is no failures, that is, when the installation fails, according to these conditions, as far as possible to choose a newer and more stable version to install. We choose wine1.6.

We try to find the title and Ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa content of the Add this PPA to your system. That is, add, address-related text, commonly added PPA source using the format "Ppa:user/ppa-name", especially PPA: very representative, to find it on the line.



After finding the Ubuntu PPA package on the above, the next step is to add, update, and install using the command line. The basic format is this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:user/ppa-name

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install Ppa-name

installation Example

Press Ctrl+alt+t to open terminal, enter sudo add-apt-repository Ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

In the middle you will be prompted whether to add, press ENTER to continue directly. After completion, information such as establishing a keyring is displayed, as shown below to be added successfully.

Linux Add PPA Source