A non-official package source that integrates nicely with apt-get. Most major open source projects have them so they can better serve their users. (I use XMBC's.)
Jay 2011/1/13 Robby Findler <[email protected]>: > What is ppa? > > Robby > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Jon Rafkind <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have built a ppa for racket on Ubuntu. This is pretty alpha so let me >> know if there are any issues with it (besides the one outlined below). >> >> Information page: https://launchpad.net/~plt/+archive/racket >> >> To install do: >> $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plt/racket >> (Use 'sudo apt-get install python-software-properties' if you dont have >> add-apt-repository) >> $ sudo apt-get update # not sure if this is really needed >> $ sudo apt-get install -f racket >> You need the -f because there is a conflict between `racket' and >> `racket-common' about some HISTORY.txt file. I'll try to fix that for >> the next release. >> >> I made the ppa on a lucid (10.04) system and tested there. I'm not 100% >> it will work on non-lucid systems but I guess it should. Right now there >> are builds for i386 and amd64. >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >> > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users -- Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
