[Ubuntu Maverick] Install packages from PPA

Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Personal maintained packages will update more frequently than the official release in most of the cases. For example, ibus.

Recently, I just installed ibus-pinyin in Maverick, after playing with ibus for a while, I found out that it didn't support Simplified/Traditional Chinese switching. The pinyin result always mixed up SC/TC characters and made me so hard to choose the right one.

Thanks for Google, I found something helpful. The current version in official release was 1.3.7-1ubuntu4, but the latest version of ibus in PPA is 1.3.9, and it supported the SC/TC switching since 1.3.8. Cool!

Installation steps stated bellow:

1. Go to PPA Website.
2. Search packages you would like to install, ex. ibus
3. We can found the ppa maintained by ibus author, https://launchpad.net/~shawn-p-huang/+archive/ppa
4. In the "Adding this PPA to your system" section, we can find "ppa:shawn-p-huang/ppa"
5. Open your favorite terminal
6. $sudo add-apt-repository ppa:shawn-p-huang/ppa


The script will do all the tedious things for you. (import key, install...etc)

P.S. You can find the new-added site located at "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/"

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