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Re: [LUG] Upgrading - or not ... (Debian)

 

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Gibbs wrote:

On 09/01/12 14:02, Steven Côté 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 <https://launchpad.net/%7Ebanshee-team/+archive/ppa>

Hope that helps.


PPA = Personal Package Archive

Thanks. Will have a look.

For now, things are quiet - the hunt is still on for a new mp3 player though!

Gordon
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