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How to get PPA packages to appear in Graphical apt manager

Asked by Steven Harper

Hi I have added packages to my PPA,

however they are not appearing in the Graphical apt-manager, they only seem to be listed when using synaptic or apt-get on command line.

Have I done something wrong, or is this a feature?

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Steven Harper (stevenharperuk) said : 		#1

the answer is that the list in the App Manager is controlled by the

gnome-app-install package

what happens is that gnome-app-install, has a set of files (/usr/share/app-install) these are for the entries in the App Manager.

So really you can get anything added to App Manager without

    * Hacking the files in
    * Replacing gnome-app-install with your own version (bad)

So the verdict is : it can't be done : use the terminal

Steve