{"id":1285,"date":"2009-11-22T17:17:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T16:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2009-11-22T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T16:17:36","slug":"building-a-ppa-for-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/building-a-ppa-for-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a PPA for Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/57249471@N00\/4089497444\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"pixel\" cookies\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2659\/4089497444_4eb1996864.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu introduced something called Personal Package Archive, which is essentially just a .deb archive, built using Ubuntu&#8217;s build machine. You read that right, if you want to offer your own customized ubuntu packages for some reason (I wanted to build nightly .deb&#8217;s), you just have to upload your source packages to your PPA and Ubuntu will build it for you for i386, amd64 and lpia.<\/p>\n<p>The whole process is completely painless. You just have to log into Launchpad, sign their code of conduct and create a new PPA archive. This will allow you to later use <em>dput<\/em> to upload it to their builders.<\/p>\n<p>With this I&#8217;m happy to introduce <em>nightlies<\/em> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/pspp\/\">PSPP<\/a>, free statistical application (a clone of SPSS):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/%7Egandalf\/+archive\/pspp\">https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~gandalf\/+archive\/pspp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu introduced something called Personal Package Archive, which is essentially just a .deb archive, built using Ubuntu&#8217;s build machine. You read that right, if you want to offer your own customized ubuntu packages for some reason (I wanted to build nightly .deb&#8217;s), you just have to upload your source packages to your PPA and Ubuntu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[827,826,929],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-ppa","tag-pspp","tag-ubuntu"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1287,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}