[racket] Installing

From: Doug Orleans (dougorleans at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 6 22:30:53 EDT 2011

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Rodolfo Carvalho <rhcarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 18:46, Doug Orleans <dougorleans at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Right, what I meant was, it would be nice if I could click a link on
>> the web page and it would automatically add the PPA to my software
>> sources list (with confirmation etc).  But that's an Ubuntu/Launchpad
>> issue, not a Racket issue.
>>
>
>
> Maybe AptUrl would help?
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptUrl

That is nice!  But it doesn't handle PPAs.  In fact it turns out they
implemented "apt-ppa:" URLs but it's "disabled because of potential
security implications":

https://bugs.launchpad.net/apturl/+bug/581110

Oh well...

--Doug



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