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PPA (personal package archive) is the Ubuntu name, but other distributions make it possible to do the same. The system is a way to distribute packages through t
by aesh2Xa1 6y ago
PPA (personal package archive) is the Ubuntu name, but other distributions make it possible to do the same. The system is a way to distribute packages through the package manager, and repository metadata is hosted centrally.
Fedora has such repositories (RPM Fusion, Copr). Arch does, too (AUR). Other distributions, including Debian, can use them as well, so long as there exists a community.
- m4rtink 6y agoI would not really call RPM Fusion a PPA - it's basically a repo with packages that are inherent not open source or patent encumbered and can't thus be in regular Fedora repos (and Copr actually). Otherwise the community maintains it to a very similar standard as the regular Fedora repos. Compared to that Copr is a real PPA where you can build stuff into personal repo (as long as its built from source, licensing is fine & the thing is not patent encumbered).