[Bug 722122] Re: Adding PPAs should be made easier.

[Peter Miller]

The command
software-center apt:packagename
will take you into the GUI, and up to the point where it is ready to install the new package.

Why doesn't the command
software-center ppa:archivename
take you into the GUI and up to the point where it is ready to add the new PPA?

This would, with appropriate warnings about trust-worthy-ness, mean that
you could get ppa: URIs to work the same way apt: URIs work now.  With
the result that web pages with newbie-scary command line "install the
ppa then install the package" instructions can be hugely simplified...
to two simple links.

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Title:
  Adding PPAs should be made easier.

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: software-center

  Adding PPAs should be made easier.
  Currently it is long process and thats why most blogs refer to command line instructions for adding a ppa.
  if a ppa is pasted in the search field it should give user the option to add the ppa.

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