How to add a Ubuntu repository to ppm?

[s243a]

It works OK at my end.
I tried it on Puppy Tahr and only with the kxstudio and as the picture shows works fine.
What I did was to add

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ppa.launchpad.net|http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-team/ppa/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-kxstudio
#and
ppa.launchpad.net|http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-team/ppa/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-kxstudio

in DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS then open PPM and update the databases from "settings"
Closed PPM.
Removed the previous PPM files from /tmp (or just reboot) as I find that they mess up the process if they are (partially) overwritten.
Opened PPM again, activated the kxstudio repo from "settings",
Closed and reopened PPM one last time for the change to take effect, and that was it.

The trick is that you must add the "Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION-<name>" or "Packages-ubuntu-trusty-<name>" or at least "Packages-<name>" because the database file is generated from /root/.packages/Packages-*. Without "Packages" does not see it as a repo.

BTW I see you add a bunch of x86_64 repos. Do you have a 64bit Ubuntu Puppy or you are going to use them with other 64bit puppies?

I tried to add the xenial repository on tahrpup and it didn't quite work out for me. The update db worked without error. It created all the related files (e.g. ~/.package/Packages-ubuntu-xenial-universe)

However when I searched for a package (e.g. synergy) the description and package name were blank. Here is how I modified DISTRO_COMPAT

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PKG_DOCS_DISTRO_COMPAT="
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}/main/binary-${BIN_ARCH}/Packages.${DB_COMP}|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-main
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}/universe/binary-${BIN_ARCH}/Packages.${DB_COMP}|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-universe
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}/multiverse/binary-${BIN_ARCH}/Packages.${DB_COMP}|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-multiverse
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-${BIN_ARCH}/Packages.xz|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-xenial-main
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/universe/binary-${BIN_ARCH}/Packages.xz|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-xenial-universe
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/multiverse/binary-${BIN_ARCH}/Packages.xz|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-xenial-multiverse
"

#-------------------
#REPOS_DISTRO_COMPAT - hardcode the compat-distro repos in here...
#-------------------
# 1|2|3
#   1 - domain. for testing the url.
#   2 - full URI of the repo
#   3 - name of db-file(s) associated with that repo. it may have glob wildcards.

REPOS_DISTRO_COMPAT="
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-*
z|http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-*
z|ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-*
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-xenial-*
z|http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-xenial-*
z|ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-xenial-*
"

ubuntu-xenial-main seemed to work but the other ones look blank when I look in the puppy package manager.

[recobayu]

I add this code to add texstudio in upupcc. And it's works!

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PKG_DOCS_DISTRO_COMPAT="
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}/main/binary-${DBIN_ARCH}/Packages.${DDB_COMP}|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-main
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}/universe/binary-${DBIN_ARCH}/Packages.${DDB_COMP}|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-universe
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}/multiverse/binary-${DBIN_ARCH}/Packages.${DDB_COMP}|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-multiverse
ppa.launchpad.net|http://ppa.launchpad.net/sunderme/texstudio/ubuntu/dists/cosmic/main/binary-${DBIN_ARCH}/Packages.${DDB_COMP}|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-cosmic-texstudio
"

#-------------------
#REPOS_DISTRO_COMPAT - hardcode the compat-distro repos in here...
#-------------------
# 1|2|3
#   1 - domain. for testing the url.
#   2 - full URI of the repo
#   3 - name of db-file(s) associated with that repo. it may have glob wildcards.

REPOS_DISTRO_COMPAT="
z|http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-*
z|http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-*
z|ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-*
ppa.launchpad.net|http://ppa.launchpad.net/sunderme/texstudio/ubuntu|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-${DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION}-texstudio
"

Now, how to make gui for that?
I try this code:

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#!/bin/sh
. /etc/./DISTRO_SPECS
. /root/.packages/./DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS
echo $DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION
echo $PKG_DOCS_DISTRO_COMPAT

addppa(){
additional="ppa.launchpad.net|http://ppa.launchpad.net/$entryPPA/ubuntu/dists/$DISTRO_COMPAT_VERSION/main/binary-${DBIN_ARCH}/Packages.${DDB_COMP}|Packages-${DISTRO_BINARY_COMPAT}-cosmic-$entryPPA"
echo
echo $additional
PKG_DOCS_DISTRO_COMPAT="$additional PKG_DOCS_DISTRO_COMPAT"
}
export addppa
#sed '/PKG_DOCS_DISTRO_COMPAT="/a nambahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' /root/.packages/DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS

export guippa='
<window>
<vbox>
  <hbox>
	<text>
	 <label>apt-add-repository ppa:</label>
	</text>
	<entry activates-default="true">
	  <variable>entryPPA</variable>
	  <action>addppa</action>
	</entry>
  </hbox>
  <button can-default="true" has-default="true">
  </button>
</vbox>
</window>'

gtkdialog -p guippa

But i have problem to insert a line after line PKG_DOCS_DISTRO_COMPAT="

[sc0ttman]

You could try adding the repo with Pkg (http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112927)

Simply run this command in the terminal

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pkg add-repo ppa:foo/bar ubuntu bionic

That *should* make the repo available to use in Pkg.

You can then switch to that repo like so:

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pkg repo <repo-name>

And start searching/adding packages from that repo like so:

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pkg names <search>

pkg search <search>

pkg add <package-name>

[rockedge]

You could try adding the repo with Pkg (http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112927)

works great....I have been doing it manually since UPUP 3.9.9.2