Beginner's question: Are the Kubuntu-PPA's being in use?

[Volker Wysk]

Hi

What irritated me most, was the missing of "kubuntu-ppa" in the list of 
queried servers, when doing "apt-get update". However, there *is* 
"ppa.launchpad.net" being queried, so I now think this was a false alarm. 
Sorry.

Am Saturday 12 December 2015, 21:12:23 schrieb Alan Dacey:
> If you really, really want to make sure
> you can look at an installed package for the version then look in the
> official Ubuntu repository to make sure they are different. (...)

"apt-show-versions -a" possibly should to the trick, too.


> If your version doesn't have a "ppa" at the end or if you want to explore
> what the official repositories have, this is one way to do it. You can use
> wget or a browser to get the file
> http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/universe/binary-amd64/Pack
> ages.gz and uncompress it. Open it up and search for Kmail using the search
> term "Package: kmail" (no quotes obviously).  (...)

This is "wily" in my case. Kmail actually hasn't been updated, it's still at 
15.08.2. This is because of the Kubuntu KDE team hasn't caught up with the KDE 
releases (it's 15.08.3 upstream now). That's what I've read in another message 
on this list.

Thanks for your mail!

Bye,
Volker