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Y PPA Manager

Y PPA Manager 0.0.8.1 has been released today, bringing support for Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and quite a few bug fixes.

I've also tried adding a PPA ranking system based on the number of downloads for each PPA, but it was very slow and since it depends on Launchpad and not me, I've disabled it for now. I'll enable this feature as soon as this is fixed.

Y PPA Manager features:
  • search packages in all Launchpad PPAs
  • list and download packages in a PPA
  • add / remove / purge a PPA
  • backup and restore PPA sources
  • remove duplicate PPA sources
  • works in Linux Mint too
  • Unity quicklists

For more info, see the Y PPA Manager Launchpad page.

To install the latest Y PPA Manager in Ubuntu (9.10, 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 or 11.10), use the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install y-ppa-manager