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Improved PPA search

Asked by Devon

I've noticed searching for packages in the PPAs can be quite tedious. Is there a way or plans to specify filters or sort the list based a specific package name, or last updated or the target Ubuntu version? Or maybe there is some other richer interface for searching through the PPAs?
For example I was looking for a recent version of 'gdal' for 16.10 and searching for gdal brings a list of 66 PPAs most of which are old and/or not for my system and others which don't contain that package, only reference it in the description.
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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Use duckduckgo.com and use the !PPA bang

Eg.

!ppa firefox

And you will see the PPAs with Firefox in them.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

If you have a better way to search, or something that could improve results then I suggest you report a bug with your suggestion

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