Posted by dg1727 on Oct 10, 2011; 4:30pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Add-a-PPA-for-releases-in-Linux-deb-format-tp4888776.html

Hello,

The options on the LibreCAD website for downloading in .deb format for Linux seem to be:  

[1].  Download from the Ubuntu repositories, which are updated every 6 months.  
[2].  Download a daily development build.  
[3].  Download from Debian unstable (Debian Sid), which presently has 1.0.0rc1, whereas the Windows and MacOS X folders on SourceForge have 1.0.0rc3.  
[4].  Download an RPM and use the "alien" utility to convert to .deb format.  

Would it be possible to add a PPA (maybe ppa:librecad-dev/librecad-releases or similar) that gets a new .deb package each time a LibreCAD version is released in Windows, MacOS X, and RPM formats?  

This would be more up-to-date than [1] and [3], yet more stable (for non-developers) than [2], and has two advantages over [4] for .deb users:  the "alien" step wouldn't be needed, plus users would be automatically notified of new releases.