Adding PPA repositories with the Karmic

[Rog131]

> Awesome software-properties update for PPAs

CLI:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:<Repository_Name>

Example - adding Jonathan Riddell's PPA repository with the gpg key

1) Browsing to the PPA for Jonathan Riddell. Reading the description and the warnings (if any).

2) Adding the PPA repository to the repository list with the gpg keys:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jr

Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv D1B8E0D26079DC00276F463C1406C1DFB3408323
gpg: requesting key B3408323 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key B3408323: public key "Launchpad PPA for Jonathan Riddell" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)

and the PPA repository is added to the /etc/apt/sources.list.d /1/

ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 2009-07-20 14:27 jr-ppa-karmic.list

The jr-ppa-karmic.list has one line:

deb [url]http://ppa.launchpad.net/jr/ppa/ubuntu[/url] karmic main

/1/ man sources.list

SOURCES.LIST.D

The /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory provides a way to add sources.list entries in separate files. The format is the same as for the regular sources.list file. File names need to end with .list and may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z), digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-) and period (.) characters. Otherwise they will be silently ignored.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Adding PPA repositories with the Karmic

Will the PPA for Karmic work for the 64bit version too?

(I have the ia32 libs installed).

I ask because I tried to install the 64b Jaunty version of yAMP like I did on my Jaunty partition but it failed on my Karmic partition.

[Rog131]

Re: Adding PPA repositories with the Karmic

yAMP

[GreyGeek]

Re: Adding PPA repositories with the Karmic

Opps! Typo (Strange that your mind sees what you WANT to type and not what you ACTUALLY typed!)

yawp.

Yet Another Weather Program

[Rog131]

Re: Adding PPA repositories with the Karmic

I tried to install the 64b Jaunty version

As default the Jaunty is using KDE 4.2.2. With the Karmic there has been changes at the plasma, Qt and gcc - so the plasma-widgets might not work if they are compiled with the default Jaunty.

Here the plasma-widget-yawp_0.2.3~karmic~ppa1_i386.deb is working fine ( > Package name contains: plasma-widget-yawp, Published in Karmic).


The plasmoidviewer /1/ could offer more information, error messages. Konsole:

plasmoidviewer yaWP

/1/ plasmoidviewer --help

Usage: plasmoidviewer [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] applet [args]

Run Plasma widgets in their own window

[Stormbringer]

Re: Adding PPA repositories with the Karmic

Hi,

I seem to be having a problem with adding - or, rather, finding a repository in my recently-updated-from-Jaunty-to-Karmic install.

The repository I want to add is "Kubuntu Members - KDE 4 Repository"

I have tried entering

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-members-kde4/ppa

into the terminal.

Running "sudo apt-get update" produced the error:

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-mem...64/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

After finding this thread, I removed the previous entry via KPackageKit, closed KPackageKit, ran the update in the terminal (to check for removal of the repository; no error presented itself), then entered

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-members-kde4

(That is, the previous entry minus the final "/ppa".)

It produces the same error.

Does the inclusion/exclusion of the final "/ppa" make a difference?
More to the point, any ideas on that the issue might be, and how I could go about resolving it?

[Rog131]

Re: Adding PPA repositories with the Karmic

It produces the same error.

Does the inclusion/exclusion of the final "/ppa" make a difference?
More to the point, any ideas on that the issue might be, and how I could go about resolving it?

Sometimes it does...

A link > FAQ: Repositories >> Using the PPA repositories:

Please read before using...

Go to the PPA repository "Overview" page and read the warnings/notifications/information/...

If you mean this > Kubuntu Members - KDE 4 Repository.

Then in this case it doesn't. Browsing to the > Kubuntu Members - KDE 4 Repository:

This PPA currently publishes packages for Intrepid and Hardy.

That is the reason for the:

W: Failed to fetch...
...404 Not Found

with the Karmic.