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Jerome

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Registered: 2016-02-26

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Adding a PPA?

Just wondering whether there are likely to be any issues adding a PPA which is specifically for Ubuntu. I know Ubuntu is based on Debian so I'm guessing they should be compatible but thought I'd ask first as I don't want to mess up my system. Thanks!

Rademes

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2015-12-13

Posts: 637

Re: Adding a PPA?

It is not recommended to add PPA repositories to Q4OS. There is a big possibility, that you will damage entire package structure and will be forced to reinstall entire Q4OS.
Or at least make full system backup using Systemback before experimenting with PPA repositories.

Last edited by Rademes (2016-05-17 20:45)

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Jerome

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Registered: 2016-02-26

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Re: Adding a PPA?

Thanks Rademes. That's a shame because the software doesn't seem to have any option for building from source.

Last edited by Jerome (2016-05-18 10:29)

Dai_trying

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From: UK

Registered: 2015-12-14

Posts: 2,992

Re: Adding a PPA?

You could try installing in a virtual-box, that would give your system protection whilst trying out something new.

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Adding a PPA?

You can add PPA repositories in Q4OS Orion, if they support Debian Jessie. You need to install 'software-properties-common' package:
$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

If you want to add PPA repository:
$ sudo add-apt-repository some-ppa-repo

Make sure the PPA supports Debian Jessie. If not so, the 'apt-get update' process will report a non-existent repository error.

Jerome

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Registered: 2016-02-26

Posts: 148

Re: Adding a PPA?

Thanks team. So you're saying that the worst that could happen is that an error will be reported if the PPA does NOT support Debian Jessie?

I'll give it a try.

Jerome

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Registered: 2016-02-26

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Re: Adding a PPA?

It didn't work. Do I need to remove the PPA or is it ok to leave it? This was the output but I got a not found error when updating.

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpw3r1tgxk/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpw3r1tgxk/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key A402E8BE from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpw3r1tgxk/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key A402E8BE: public key "Launchpad PPA for JASP-UvA" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

This is the message I got after the update:

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/jasp-uva/jasp/ … 6/Packages  404  Not Found

Last edited by Jerome (2016-05-18 18:44)

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Adding a PPA?

It didn't work.

Please describe it a bit more.

You can remove the PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository -r some-ppa-repo

q4osteam

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Registered: 2015-12-06

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Re: Adding a PPA?

Thanks for the description, this PPA doesn't support Debian Jessie. You can safely remove it, see the previous post.