Launchpad itself

PPA packages should be installable via apt-url

Bug #374568 reported by Celso Providelo
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Won't Fix
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

AptUrl provides an elegant solution for enabling repositories and installing packages from them in few clicks in a very intuitive and self-guided form.

While instructions for installing packages from PPAs could be heavily improved, it will never be as good as something easy like `click-n-run`.

{{{
apt+http://ppa.launchpad.net/cprov/ppa?package=artoolkit
}}}

1. Enabled the repository if necessary in sources.list.d (permanently or temporary ? maybe prompt the user)
2. Enable its signing key (again, prompt the user OR use lp-api for cross-certifying the signing-key)
3. Install the requested package.

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Alain Kalker (miki4242) wrote :

add-apt-repository from the binary package python-software-properties (from Karmic onwards) is a commandline tool which does steps 1 and 2; since both are written in Python, it should not be too difficult to integrate PPA support into apturl.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Changed in soyuz:
assignee: Celso Providelo (cprov) → nobody
milestone: pending → none
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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote :

I'm not sure what, if anything, LP needs to do here. Marking incomplete pending some exposition :)

Changed in launchpad:
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

Changing to won't-fix because of a UDS conversation from 18 months ago. The Ubuntu guys basically don't want people to be able to click on random URLs and have packages installed, they want to drive everything via the installer apps.

Changed in launchpad:
status: Incomplete → Won't Fix
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