PPA?

[Jim Byrnes]

Yorvyk wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:45:03 -0600
> Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net>  wrote:
>
>> Colin Law wrote:
>>> On 13 January 2011 19:40, Jim Byrnes<jf_byrnes at comcast.net>   wrote:
>>>> I am thinking of using qtstalker.  The version in the Lucid repositories
>>>> mthat I installed is .32 but the latest stable version is .36.  A PPA has
>>>> been setup.  I read through the docs on how to use a PPA, but have one
>>>> question.
>>>>
>>>> If I install .36 from the PPA will it update my installed .32 or will it
>>>> install a new copy.
>>>
>>> It should update your existing one.
>>>
>>> You might want to know about ppa-purge which is a very useful utility
>>> to get rid of a ppa and restore everything back as it was, in case you
>>> decide you want to go back.
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>
>> Colin,
>>
>> Thanks for the info.  I use Lucid and I see that ppa-purge is only in
>> the Maverick repositories.  How hard would it be to install it on Lucid
>> if I decided I wanted to use it?  As you can probably tell from my
>> questions I mostly install software from the official repositories.
>>
>> Thanks,  Jim
>>
> It's available in Lucid if you enable backports.
>

Thanks, got it.

Regards,  Jim