How to use the PPAs

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artmg edited this page Dec 1, 2016 · 2 revisions

Simple instructions

paste the following code into a Terminal in Ubuntu (or one of its derivatives)

use the daily builds

# add the PPA
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:nixnote/nixnote2-daily
sudo apt-get update
# install nixnote2
sudo apt-get install nixnote2

update manually to the latest version

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nixnote2
# check internal version number
dpkg -s nixnote2 | grep Version

then check Help / About to see the friendly version number.

diagnostics

You shouldn't need to do this, but just in case things don't work out with installing from the PPAs, you can try:

# check the PPA has been included
ls /var/lib/apt/lists/*nixnote*_Packages -l
# check what packages are available
grep Package /var/lib/apt/lists/*nixnote*_Packages
# simple list of packages
awk '$1 == "Package:" { if (a[$2]++ == 0) print $2; }' /var/lib/apt/lists/*nixnote*_Packages