I have installed a bunch of apps using debs and ubuntu standard repos. Is it possible that when I add a ppa of such an app at later time ubuntu will update my app.
Common examples are apps such as wine, google chrome, etc.
Asked
Active
Viewed 22 times
2 Answers
1
Yes, if you install something via the package management system (dpkg and apt), when you apt upgrade or apt dist-upgrade it will look at all your locally defined sources (PPAs, official repos, local caches, CDs etc) and attempt to install the latest version of all packages.
apt upgrade will only upgrade something if it doesn't require installing extra packages, or removing some. Only apt dist-upgrade (or the newer apt full-upgrade) will do that.
If you want to avoid that, you can "pin" the package to avoid updates.
If you install it via another method (eg sudo make install), unless you've also installed it via package management (seriously not recommended), dist- upgrade will either overwrite or install alongside.
Things you install manually tend to go into .../local/... or /opt/... directories to avoid direct clashes but this can mean you have more than one version of something installed at once.
0
If you have downloaded and installed an DEB from a PPA-Page and add the PPA later, your apps will be updated.
A.B.
- 90,397