LottaNZB

I created a PPA (Personal Package Archive) for LottaNZB quite a while ago, but never announced it publicly on this site nor mentioned it on the download page.

A PPA is a software repository like the official ones you get your software from when you use Ubuntu or Debian. Using Launchpad.net, every person or team can create such a PPA and upload signed software to it. The cool thing about this is that users can add the PPA to the software sources and afterwards, new versions of LottaNZB will show up in the update manager like everything else. This makes it easy for you to always use the latest version of LottaNZB. Ubuntu 9.10 will be the first Ubuntu version to have LottaNZB in its official software repository, but this version will not often be updated, while our PPA will.

If you’re interested, here’s how you can use LottaNZB’s PPA:

1. To add the PPA to the sources your machine can get software from, run the following in the Terminal.

   source /etc/lsb-release
   echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lottanzb/ppa/ubuntu $DISTRIB_CODENAME main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lottanzb-ppa.list

2. The packages in the PPA are signed to ensure that you don’t get malicious software. You need to do the following so that your computer knows how to verify the validity of the packages:

   sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 93A5BC72

3. Now you can update the software sources and install LottaNZB using

   sudo apt-get update

   sudo apt-get install lottanzb

That’s it! Of course all of the above steps could be done graphically using the Synaptic package management that can be found in the system menu, but it would have taken much more time.