On 06/07/2015 08:42 AM, Sven Hartge wrote:
Anil Duggirala <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> wrote:is it possible to use PPAs in debian? how do I go about doing this ?Debian does not (yet) have anything like a PPA. And using Ubuntus PPAs in Debian is a bad idea, won't work half the time and will wreck your system the other.
I've routinely used webupd8 ppa for Oracle Java installs. This is specific to Debian however. I have used this for several years, no problem.
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