I have found a piece of software, which I would like to try.
It comes in some ubuntu package setup"thing"
It says sudo add-apt-repository ppa:k-2005/ppa

I did a tiny bit of reading about that, and pretty much figured out that it was an ubuntu-only thing, and might mess up a debian system somehow.

But, is there some other way to add the"same" in Debian?

Or will I be compiling this stuff myself?
I guess I really should try to make it a deb...

Hi rust,

ppa I have added to my sources.list because I have the package"thinkfan" to control the fan on my X40 needed.

What exactly do you want to install?

rust collector wrote:I have found a piece of software, which I would like to try.
It comes in some ubuntu package setup"thing"
It says sudo add-apt-repository ppa:k-2005/ppa

I did a tiny bit of reading about that, and pretty much figured out that it was an ubuntu-only thing, and might mess up a debian system somehow.

But, is there some other way to add the"same" in Debian?

Or will I be compiling this stuff myself?
I guess I really should try to make it a deb...

I think this might be the ppa here:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://launchpad.net/~k-2005/+archive/ppa"
linktext was:"https://launchpad.net/~k-2005/+archive/ppa"
====================================


Click the arrow by the"Technical details about this PPA" link, it will show what the sources.list entry should be:

deb
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://ppa.launchpad.net/k-2005/ppa/ubuntu"
linktext was:"http://ppa.launchpad.net/k-2005/ppa/ubuntu"
====================================
YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main

I'm not exactly sure which buntu version you should use for the 'YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE' part.

If you want to be hardcore about it, you could make it a `deb-src` entry instead and build/backport the debianized source.

This is what I want to try:

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://readesm.sourceforge.net/"
linktext was:"http://readesm.sourceforge.net/"
====================================


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://readesm.sourceforge.net/help.html"
linktext was:"http://readesm.sourceforge.net/help.html"
====================================


However, I might have found an alternative:

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10685"
linktext was:"http://developer.berlios.de/project/sho ... p_id=10685"
====================================


So, there is nothing really bad about using the ppa-thing?

yes, try it out.

m.E. you should also have to compile anything if you do it via ppa.

Edit: since 2009 because nothing has happened ...
Leave it until the developer at.

Hi,

You can just download the relevant package and install it with this command as root:

# dpkg -i <the full package name>

/!\ it can eventually bork your install, do it at your own risk ! Eventually if this package does not need any libs which might be conflicting with the one installed, there should not be any damage (but you can never be sure of this before you try)

Here is the page for your packages:

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://launchpad.net/~k-2005/+archive/ppa/+packages"
linktext was:"https://launchpad.net/~k-2005/+archive/ppa/+packages"
====================================


If you want to install it, get the last one in date and number, it is this one:
readesm - 2011.11pre1ubuntu4

there are 2 versions, amd64 and i386:

========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://launchpad.net/~k-2005/+archive/ppa/+build/3019092/+files/readesm_2011.11pre1ubuntu4_amd64.deb"
linktext was:"https://launchpad.net/~k-2005/+archive/ ... _amd64.deb"
====================================



========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"https://launchpad.net/~k-2005/+archive/ppa/+build/3019093/+files/readesm_2011.11pre1ubuntu4_i386.deb"
linktext was:"https://launchpad.net/~k-2005/+archive/ ... 4_i386.deb"
====================================


In antiX you will probably want the version i386.