Ubuntu PPA

[Henrik Brautaset Aronsen]

Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> I just tried this with a 12.10 box
>
> Henrik Brautaset Aronsen<subsurface at henrik.synth.no>  writes:
>
>> Henrik Brautaset Aronsen wrote:
>>> 1) Open Ubuntu Software Center
>>> 2) Edit -->  Software Sources
>>> 3) Other Software -->  Add -->  ppa:subsurface/subsurface
>
> this requires entering the password (which makes sense - should we
> mention that? we don't go into that much detail for other Linux distros,
> but then I think we are trying to make this really easy for Ubuntu users
> on purpose)

No need to be too verbose, I think.  People are used to entering their 
password when installing software.

>>> 4) Close&  search for Subsurface.  Install.
>
> on 12.10 this doesn't generate a question about the key, but it also
> doesn't install 3.0.2 but 1.2 instead - which I think makes sense since
> we only have a 12.04 repository up so far, correct?

Yup, this is expected.

>> Ah, there's one extra step before installing.  Ubuntu needs to know the
>> signing key for the PPA's packages.  It's listed under "Technical
>> details" on https://launchpad.net/~subsurface/+archive/subsurface.
>>
>> I don't have a 12.4 installation available to test that. Let's see if I
>> can somehow convert this laptop into a dual boot Ubuntu/Ubuntu machine.
>> But that won't happen today (and tomorrow I'll go diving for a few days)

Happy diving!

Henrik
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