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what's the difference with PPAs? the main reason i always fall back to Ubuntu is bc everyone has a PPA for it. Sometimes the PPA also works for Debian, but its
by geokon 1y ago
what's the difference with PPAs?
the main reason i always fall back to Ubuntu is bc everyone has a PPA for it. Sometimes the PPA also works for Debian, but its 50/50 (from what i understand its not an official thing under Debian?)
AppImages have aleviated this.. but appimagelauncher is broken under Ubuntu and theyre annoying to integrate manually
- jjice 1y agoI've only used AppImages for software I didn't care about every being updated - can they do updates without having to manually redownload the AppImage?
- PhilippGille 1y agoYes, but not super straightforward: https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/optional/updates.html https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/optional/updates.h...
- jzb 1y agoIn one case, none -- extrepo carries a PPA for Trinity desktop: https://salsa.debian.org/extrepo-team/extrepo-data/-/blob/master/repos/debian/trinity.yaml https://salsa.debian.org/extrepo-team/extrepo-data/-/blob/ma... Generally, these are repos maintained by the upstreams themselves, e.g. Docker, Tor, Armbian, Dovecot... my guess (and it's just a guess, I haven't used Ubuntu PPAs much lately) the PPAs are maintained by not-the-upstreams. Or perhaps some of the upstreams are maintaining both a PPA and their own hosted repo.