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Do PPA's show up in "Software Centre"?

Asked by Randall Ross

I've added a PPA to Karmic (9.10) for the Chromium browser. To install, I was forced to use Synaptic Package Manager rather than Software Centre. Is this expected behaviour, or a bug?

Thanks in advance!

Randall
... in Vancouver

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zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#1

"Is this expected behaviour, or a bug?"

It is expected behaviour,because every repo you add to your source list make possible to install packages with synaptic or from cli.

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Randall Ross (randall) said : 		#2

Ok. I would expect Software Centre to allow me to install software from PPA's as well, provided that I have added them. Is this documented somewhere?

Thanks!

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zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#3

Read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware

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Randall Ross (randall) said : 		#4

Thanks for the suggestion. I read it and there are no references to the Software Centre.

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zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#5

"ould expect Software Centre to allow me to install software from PPA's as well, provided that I have added them."

You added them to the source list,and because of that you are able to install it from synaptic.In software center you will find just a part of available packages and all of them are from main,unvierse and multiverse repositories.PPA repos are not added to the software center,they are added to the synaptic.You will find synaptic more useful because from there you can install every package from your source list.

"I read it and there are no references to the Software Centre."

No it is about installing software in Ubuntu and you can see that recommended method is synaptic.Other method is installinf from terminal with command

sudo apt-get install package_name

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Randall Ross (randall) said : 		#6

How can I make the PPA's show up in Software Centre?

The "average user" doesn't want/need Synaptic or apt-get on a command line.

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#7

There's a package for that [1] install that and you should be able to
see ppa's in the command line.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2mnW3LQLJs

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Regards,
Vikram Dhillon

On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 18:32 +0000, Randall Ross (rrnwexec) wrote:
> Question #90021 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/90021
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> Randall Ross (rrnwexec) is still having a problem:
> How can I make the PPA's show up in Software Centre?
>
> The "average user" doesn't want/need Synaptic or apt-get on a command
> line.
>

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Randall Ross (randall) said : 		#8

Found my own answer: The Software Centre shows packages that have a desktop file, which at the moment isn't everything.

(Not happy with the command line options... sorry ;)