Ubuntu PPA

[Roland Dreier]

I think you just do something roughly like

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:blahblah

Not sure if there's a GUI way to do that.

- R.
On Mar 22, 2013 10:13 AM, "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?
>
> /D
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