Hi David, > > If your distribution handles PPAs, there is little point, but if it > > does not, it could be very handy. > > Not really. I have no idea what a PPA is so I presume that my OSes > don't handle them. I just regularly 'brew update;brew upgrade' on OS X > and 'apt-get update;apt-get upgrade' on Linux.
A PPA is one place for apt-get to fetch packages from. If you find apt-get update gives you 3.00, 3.01, etc., soon after they're released, then you pulling their packages from somewhere other than a stable Ubuntu 2016-10, etc., that wouldn't update much once released; that might be a PPA you've told it about in the past. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
