Ubuntu PPA

[Miika Turkia]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks to Miika the launchpad PPA is beginning to populate... so the
> naive question from the non-Ubuntu user is... what are the instructions
> we should have on the website to tell people how to install these?
>
> Clicking on "technical details" on our launchpad site it says
>
>
>    This PPA can be added to your system manually by copying the lines below and adding them to your system's software sources.
>
>    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/subsurface/subsurface/ubuntu precise main
>    deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/subsurface/subsurface/ubuntu precise main
>
>
> Which sounds like people need to figure out how to manually add two
> lines as root to some system file... I hope that's not the only way to
> do this... I was led to believe that Ubuntu is all about being easy for
> the non technical user... what am I missing?

On terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:subsurface/subsurface
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install subsurface

After this is done, subsurface will be updated as part of normal
system updates whenever there is a new package available.

miika