Is there an alternative for 'ppasearch' in newer versions of Ubuntu?

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Is there an alternative for ppasearch (command-line app) in newer versions of Ubuntu?

ppasearch is only avaiable for 10.10, 10.04 and 9.10.

What did `ppasearch` originally do? – kiri Jan 11 '14 at 07:02 — kiri, Jan 11 '14 at 07:02
@kiri same thing as `apt search` but for ppa's – Jonathan May 29 '18 at 22:28 — Jonathan, May 29 '18 at 22:28

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 11 '14 at 07:36

If you're looking to search for a PPA which contains a certain package, you can use the PPA search feature in Y PPA Manager (by WebUp8).

Install it with these commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install y-ppa-manager

Run it by searching for Y PPA Manager in the Dash.
Click on the "Search in all Launchpad PPAs" button.
Enter your admin password if prompted.
Enter the package name you want to search for.
Enable the "Basis search" if you want it to go faster, but with less info
Click "OK". A notification will appear informing you that the search has started,
wait for a new window with PPAs to appear.
You can then choose to add a PPA and other actions.

As a side note, Y PPA Manager also includes a handy utility called update-ppa. It's like apt-get update, but only for one PPA.

Usage:

sudo -H update-ppa ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager

(replace ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager with the PPA, with a similar format)

As far as you know, ppasearch is a command-line util. I have headless Ubuntu server without any GUI. — BBK, Jan 11 '14 at 08:35

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