From 5e221708d3fc4dc87aecbc95e15ec84f20dd6bf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Bush Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2020 15:41:31 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] clean --- pages/InstallPPAs.md | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pages/InstallPPAs.md b/pages/InstallPPAs.md index 05c31fd..6e7bcf4 100644 --- a/pages/InstallPPAs.md +++ b/pages/InstallPPAs.md @@ -1 +1,24 @@ -pages/InstallPPAs.md \ No newline at end of file +# Installing ppas + +Before you can install your first ppa, you have to install python-software-properties so you can get add-apt-repository + +``` +apt-get install python-software-properties +``` + +Now you can try to add a ppa repository, e.g. + +``` +add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa +apt-get update +apt-get install gstreamer1.0* +``` + +And you may find the following very handy + +``` +apt-file search +``` + +as it will list the packages which may provide the operand. +