Changing PPAs from lucid to maverick [duplicate]

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Is there a tool to update my PPA sources.list entries after upgrading?

I recently upgraded to Maverick and I have a not so long list of PPAs. Is there a way to quickly change the distribution from lucid to maverick without using a text editor?

Solution 1:

See this question and answers for all the info about PPAs. However the direct answer is as follows:

A PPA is not restricted to a particular release (like lucid, maverick etc). The same ppa normally contains versions for many distributions and this is the preferred way of migrating ppa's over to new distribution releases - where most of the effort is on the ppa owner.

So simply adding back the ppa to your sources list will make the maverick version of updates and new packages from the ppa available immediately to you. Of course, if the maintainer has not released versions for maverick yet, then these won't be available now, but as soon as these are posted they will be picked up "automagically" :-).

If you are not using add-apt-repository or providing the apt-line to synaptic (which are both distribution neutral) and are directly editing files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d or in synaptic, take care to replace any occurrence of the word lucid with maverick

Solution 2:

My advice is install ubuntu tweak, this software can do it for you automatically