On 9 May 2017 at 16:03, David Cantrell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 01:56:03PM +0100, Martin Powell wrote: > ... >> 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.
Ubuntu/Mint PPA (Personal Package Archive) for get-iplayer is https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer > >> I'm in the process of moving from Mint (with PPAs) to PCLinuxOS (No >> PPAs) so the update would be nice. > > PCLinuxOS's web page is confusing, it says that it uses APT (from > Debian) but also that they have loads of RPM packages. Either way, > better to just add a suitable package repository and use that instead of > each application supplying its own update tool. The PPA *is* the 'suitable package repository' if you want to keep up to date on Ubuntu or Mint. Colin _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
