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On Jan 9, 2012 2:02 PM, "Steven Côté" <steven.cote@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Even though you're on Debian you could probably just safely use the PPA
>>>
>>> - not normally recommended I know, but it's only a small single purpose
>>> PPA so you should get away with it (I've just tried this on Debian
>>> Squeeze and it worked fine).
>>
>>
>> What's a PPA? (Google is retuning too many hits that don't mean anything in this context)
>>
>
> I forget what the acronym actually stands for, but they're basically add-on repositories for specialist packages. In this case, there's a PPA maintained for the latest stable build of Banshee for Ubuntu.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/ppa
>
> Hope that helps.
PPA = Private Package Archive, or something. It is geared towards Ubuntu users but with a little bit of digging you should be able to find the actual Deb lines for the sources.list file.
Grant
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