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[Colin Law]

On 9 May 2017 at 16:03, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 01:56:03PM +0100, Martin Powell wrote:
> ...
>> If your distribution handles PPAs, there is little point, but if it does
>> not, it could be very handy.
>
> Not really. I have no idea what a PPA is so I presume that my OSes don't
> handle them. I just regularly 'brew update;brew upgrade' on OS X and
> 'apt-get update;apt-get upgrade' on Linux.

Ubuntu/Mint PPA (Personal Package Archive) for get-iplayer is
https://launchpad.net/~jon-hedgerows/+archive/ubuntu/get-iplayer

>
>> I'm in the process of moving from Mint (with PPAs) to PCLinuxOS (No
>> PPAs) so the update would be nice.
>
> PCLinuxOS's web page is confusing, it says that it uses APT (from
> Debian) but also that they have loads of RPM packages. Either way,
> better to just add a suitable package repository and use that instead of
> each application supplying its own update tool.

The PPA *is* the 'suitable package repository' if you want to keep up
to date on Ubuntu or Mint.

Colin