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SteveDeFacto

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Registered: 2013-08-16

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Download Deb file from Ubuntu PPA

I want to download a deb file from a ubuntu ppa. How can I do this from arch?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

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Re: Download Deb file from Ubuntu PPA

Same way as you would download any other file, either using your web browser or curl/wget and the URL of the .deb file.

Last edited by Slithery (2014-02-06 14:09:44)

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Download Deb file from Ubuntu PPA

What exactly are you doing? Are you sure the application you want to use is not available in the AUR or some unofficial repo?

SteveDeFacto

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Registered: 2013-08-16

Posts: 158

Re: Download Deb file from Ubuntu PPA

Same way as you would download any other file, either using your web browser or curl/wget and the URL of the .deb file.

I don't understand what you mean? How would I download the deb from this ppa?

deb http://repo.acestream.org/ubuntu/ raring main

sudo wget -O - http://repo.acestream.org/keys/acestream.public.key | sudo apt-key add -

Last edited by SteveDeFacto (2014-02-06 14:22:49)

karol

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Re: Download Deb file from Ubuntu PPA

Have you tried https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apt/ ?

Slithery

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Re: Download Deb file from Ubuntu PPA

Usually you could just go to http://repo.acestream.org/ubuntu/ in your browser and browse for the package you want, however for some reason Acestream have disabled  browsing directories on their web server so you have to do this the long way...

First download the package list using one of the following URL's...
http://repo.acestream.org/ubuntu/dists/ … 6/Packages
http://repo.acestream.org/ubuntu/dists/ … 4/Packages

Take a look at the downloaded package list (it's just a plain text file) and append the filename field for your required package to the repos URL to get the full URL of the .deb file, for example...

http://repo.acestream.org/ubuntu/pool/m … 4_i386.deb

Last edited by Slithery (2014-02-06 14:43:07)

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No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
Closing -- for deletion; Banning -- for muppetry. - jasonwryan

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: Download Deb file from Ubuntu PPA

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Are you sure the application you want to use is not available in the AUR or some unofficial repo?

This.