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Y PPA Manager icon

Y PPA Manager

Y PPA Manager is a GUI tool to add, remove, purge, list and search for Launchpad PPAs. It works with Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Linux
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Discontinued

Y PPA Manager was last updated in 2013 and no longer works.

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  1.  PPA
  2.  Duplicate File Finder

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Y PPA Manager, and it has gotten 16 likes

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AntumDeluge
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This is an excellent, and almost necessary, addition for Ubuntu and its derivatives. Y PPA Manager opens up a door to a wider range of software that is not available in the standard repositories. While this software is available either way, Y PPA Manager makes it much easier to access with a user interface to search all personal package archives registered on Launchpad and does all the work of adding any PPAs and public keys to your system. Simply search for a package you want, and add its PPA. Once the PPA is added to your system, update the cache and install any packages with your standard package manager.

Even Debian & Debian-derived system should be able to take advantage of it. The user only need enter the desired Ubuntu version manually.

[Edited by AntumDeluge, January 09]

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What is Y PPA Manager?

Y PPA Manager is a GUI tool to add, remove, purge, list and search for Launchpad PPAs. It works with Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

Y PPA Manager features:

  • Add PPA

  • Remove PPA

  • Purge PPA

  • Search for packages in Launchpad PPAs: a regular search which is faster, but doesn't display exact package matches and comes with less details and a deep search which displays exact package matches. In the search, you can also see if a PPA is already added on your system or not and if a package is already installed (and the installed version). You can perform the following actions on a PPA listed in the search results: add it, list packages in the PPA, open PPA in browser, download packages, install a package using the built-in installer (if the PPA is not already added, it will be added)

  • Update single PPAs - without running a full "apt-get update", which should be a lot faster (and especially useful for computers with slow Internet connections)

  • List packages in PPAs enabled on your computer

  • Edit PPA source file

  • Remove duplicate PPAs

  • Import all missing GPG keys

  • Fix GPG BADSIG errors

  • Backup an restore PPAs (automatically imports missing GPG keys)

  • Re-enable working PPAs after Ubuntu upgrade: when you upgrade to a newer Ubuntu release, the PPAs are disabled so using this feature, the PPAs that work with the new Ubuntu version you're using are re-enabled, leaving the others disabled

  • Update release name in working PPAs: somewhat similar to the feature above, this one is useful if you've backup up the PPAs in say Ubuntu Precise and restored them in Ubuntu Quantal (just an example) - in this case, using this feature you can replace "precise" in each PPA source with "quantal", but only for the PPAs that have packages for Quantal.

  • Desktop integration: notifications, Unity quicklists, indicator and HUD support