How to add repository manually from command line
in Ubuntu Linux
I'm on a way trying to install
Free Mega Games
Pack and I'm facing troubles in following the instructions to
add a the latest development wine version described on
http://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu
The guys from
WineHQ has to update the wine install
instructions, since the instructions are targetting older versions
of Ubuntu which are not compatible with newer Ubuntus which comes
natively with
Unity
In order to complete the step in adding the WineHQ Ubuntu PPA
development repository my only way was to add it using command
line.
Here is how:
root@ubuntu:~# apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
Latest official WineHQ releases
Welcome to the Wine Team PPA. Here you can get the latest available
Wine betas for every supported version of Ubuntu. This PPA is
managed by Scott Ritchie, and is a replacement for the WineHQ
budgetdedicated.com repository used for Jaunty and earlier.
More info: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options
--no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.bvo21sFWKG
--trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg
--primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80/ --recv
883E8688397576B6C509DF495A9A06AEF9CB8DB0
gpg: requesting key F9CB8DB0 from hkp server
keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key F9CB8DB0: public key "Launchpad PPA for Ubuntu Wine Team"
imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
Similarly adding a PPA repository on Debian is also possible by
using a little shell script
add-apt-repository.sh
.
add-apt-repository.sh simulates what ubuntu's
apt-add-repositry python script does.
It is educative to mention
PPA stands for (Personal package
Archive) and the difference between normal repository and PPA is
mainly in the fact that PPA repositories makes a package
distributed by the repository like the native Ubuntu packages
issued by Canonical.
Once for example a new version of a file is placed in PPA deb
package repository, the newer package will be automatically
installed to the system using it.