A collection of PPAs giving significant upgrades for the past 6+ years of Ubuntu (LTS) releases. Popular software here: Blender, Chromium, digiKam, FFmpeg, GIMP, GPG, Inkscape, LibreOffice, mpv, Scribus, Telegram, and VLC.

*** "SavOS project 3 year milestones: 20,000 uploads and 20,000 users" ***
               https://medium.com/@RobSavoury/bade09fa042e

Fun stats: Over 21,000 uploads since August 2019 of 4,750 unique packages!
(28 Sep 2022) With now 350+ unique packages published for 22.04 Jammy LTS, 1,400+ for 20.04 Focal LTS, and a whole lot extra for Xenial & Bionic LTS!

If software at this site is useful to you then please consider a donation:

*** Donations: https://paypal.me/Savoury1 & https://ko-fi.com/Savoury1 ***
*** Also https://patreon.com/Savoury1 & https://liberapay.com/Savoury1 ***

UPDATE (8 May 2022): See new https://twitter.com/RobSavoury for updates on the many Launchpad PPAs found here, ie. new packages built, bugfixes, etc.

*** 4 Jul 2022: Big thanks to another top patron of the PPAs, Joel A.! ***
*** 6 Apr 2022: Big thanks to another #1 patron of the work, Frank B.! ***
*** 2 Apr 2022: Big thanks to the now #1 patron of this work, Alan L.! ***

*** About 20,000 people are now using one or more SavOS PPAs based on easy to view statistics (thanks to Harshal Sheth and his great PPA stats site). Downloads of SVT-AV1 (used by FFmpeg which is then used by many PPAs here) in a two month period (7 Jun to 10 Aug 2022) were almost 20,000 across all series for now superseded v1.1.0 (22.04 Jammy 2,968; 20.04 Focal 13,245; 18.04 Bionic 3,172; 16.04 Xenial 168 downloads). So far about 0.25% of all these users have provided direct support of this project via donation. ***

[ https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg4 for stats link ]

People often write me asking for specific work to be done who haven't even made a donation. Please understand that this project is a huge commitment, at least 3,000+ hours since August 2019 by now. Those who contribute many hours to the free software movement still have to eat and pay their bills. For the free software movement to grow and find a larger global user base it is important that more people using free software (who can afford doing so) provide direct support via donations for those doing the work to make free software available. Free software is free to use as you wish, without corporate/proprietary limits, but all doing the work can't live for free.

*** Bugs: File bug reports @ https://bugs.launchpad.net/SavOS/+filebug ***

[ "SavOS" is the project heading for all packages at this Launchpad site ]

Note on bugs: If you have third-party PPAs (ie. other than ppa:savoury1/*) on your system please do NOT report packaging conflicts or upgrade issues (ie. APT package management wanting to remove packages due a conflict) as the only setups I can possibly attempt to support are those that have only my PPAs (ppa:savoury1/*) added. When any third-party PPAs are added it can exponentially increase potential issues, due different people doing their packaging in very different ways that can easily create package conflicts.

Much effort has been put into ensuring that SavOS PPAs (= ppa:savoury1/*) work well with each other, but no time is put into making them work with third-party PPAs. So if you have added PPAs from various third-parties to your system then only YOU can possibly resolve packaging conflicts.. ;-)

   *** Current target series: Xenial, Bionic, Focal, and Jammy LTS ***

Long Term Support (LTS) releases are the main focus at this site. If still running a Xenial-based system now that the five year LTS maintenance time period has expired then it is recommended to enable ESM (Extended Security Maintenance) with a Ubuntu Advantage account, covering 3 systems for free.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-16-04-lts-transitions-to-extended-security-maintenance-esm for details and https://ubuntu.com/advantage to sign up.

For Xenial users backports of GTK, Qt, KDE, Java (incl. JDK 11), and other software stacks from Bionic allows running most new software on Xenial-era systems. The reliability of a Xenial core plus the bonus of new software.

      *** Highlights of packages in PPAs at this Launchpad site ***

See the table below for highlights of software published at this Launchpad site. Source packages in their own PPA (eg. Curl) are also then copied to a collection PPA (eg. Curl -> Utilities). Some packages with the same name are in more than one PPA for distinct versions (eg. FFmpeg 4.4.2 & 5.1.1).

============+=============================================================
 Collection | Highlights of packages included
============+=============================================================

LibreOffice = libreoffice (6.4.7 for Xenial/Bionic & 7.1.7 for all)

   Chromium = chromium-browser (105.0.5195.125 latest stable release)

   Telegram = telegram-desktop (4.2.0 latest stable release)

    Blender = alembic-io (1.8.3), blender, blender-git (3.4.0 Alpha),
     (v3.3.0) blender-lts (2.93.10), collada-dom (2.5.0), embree (3.13.4),
              llvm-toolchain-13 (13.0.1), nanovdb (32.3-3), opencollada
              (1.6.68), opencolorio (2.1.2), openimagedenoise (1.4.3),
              openimageio (2.3.19.0), openjpeg2, openscenegraph (3.6.5),
              openshadinglanguage (1.11.17.0), opensubdiv (3.4.4), openvdb
              (9.1.0), partio (1.14.6), ptex (2.4.2), python3.10 (3.10.7),
              python3.9 (3.9.14), pystring (1.1.3+git20220723), robin-map
              (0.6.3), tbb (2020.3), usd (22.08), yaml-cpp (0.7.0)

    digiKam = digikam, exiv2 (0.27.5), jasper (3.0.6), lensfun (0.3.3),
     (v7.8.0) opencv (4.5.4 Jammy / 4.2.0 imath rebuilds), openexr, qtav
              (1.13.0 libswresample rebuilds), tiff (4.4.0), x265 (3.5)

       GIMP = babl (0.1.92), exiv2, gegl (0.4.36), gimp, gmic (2.9.7),
   (v2.10.32) jasper, jpeg-xl (0.7.0~git20220805), lcms2 (2.13.1),
              libde265 (1.0.8+git20220409), libheif (1.12.0), libmypaint
              (1.6.0), libraw (0.20.2), libspiro (20200505), mypaint-
              brushes, nufraw (0.43-3), skcms (0.0~20220520)

   Inkscape = cairo, harfbuzz (2.9.1), inkscape (1.2 Focal & Jammy only,
     (v1.2.1) 1.0.2 Bionic, 0.92.5 Xenial or ppa:savoury1/gtk-xenial with
              GTK 3.22 for 1.0.2), pango1.0 (1.42.4), poppler (0.86.1)

    Scribus = fontconfig (2.13.1), freetype (2.12.1), hunspell (1.7.1),
     (v1.5.8) scribus (1.5.6.1 Focal / 1.4.8 Xenial & Bionic), scribus-ng
              (1.5.5 Xenial & Bionic), scribus-qt (1.5.8 Xenial, Bionic &
              Focal use with Qt 5.15 backports see ppa:savoury1/qt-5-15)

   FFmpeg 5 = ffmpeg, jpeg-xl, lcms2, libplacebo, shaderc (2022.2), skcms
     (v5.1.1) [also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 for successful install,
              see https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg5]

   FFmpeg 4 = aom (3.4.0), aribb24, codec2 (1.0.1), dav1d (1.0.0), ffmpeg,
     (v4.4.2) flac (1.3.4), fluidsynth (2.2.8), gst-{libav,python}1.0
              (1.20.3 for gst*), gst-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly}1.0,
              gstreamer{-vaapi,1.0}, intel-gmmlib (22.1.7), intel-media{
              -driver,-driver-non-free,sdk} (22.4.4), libbluray (1.3.1),
              libdvd{nav,read}, libmysofa (1.2.1), libsdl2 (2.0.22), libva
              (2.15.0), libvpx (1.11.0), nv-codec-headers (9.1.23.1),
              rubberband (3.0.0), sndio (1.8.1), srt (1.5.0), svt-av1
              (1.2.1), vulkan-loader (1.3.224.0), x264 (0.164.3094), x265

        mpv = glslang (11.11.0), libplacebo (4.208.0), mpv (0.35.0~git
    (v0.35.0~ pre-release), mujs (1.1.3), shaderc, spirv-tools (2022.3),
 git20220825) vapoursynth (54), vulkan-{loader,tools}, zimg (3.0.4)

      VLC 3 = dav1d, fluidsynth, libdvdnav (6.1.1), libdvdread (6.1.3),
  (v3.0.17.4) libebml (1.4.2), liblivemedia (2022.07.14), libmatroska
              (1.6.3), libplacebo, libspatialaudio (0.3.0+git20180730),
              lirc (0.10.1 bugfix), protobuf (3.12.4), shaderc, srt,
              taglib (1.12), vlc, vulkan-{loader,tools}, x{264,265}

  Handbrake = handbrake (1.5.1, 1.1.2 Xenial or ppa:savoury1/gtk-xenial)

      GPG 2 = gnupg2, gpa, gpgme1.0, libassuan, libgcrypt20 (1.8.9),
    (v2.2.39) libgpg-error (1.45), libksba, p11-kit, python-gnupg (0.4.7)

 Encryption = argon2 (0~20190702), botan (2.19.2), gnutls28 (3.7.3),
              keepass2 (2.51.1), keepassxc (2.7.1), libgcrypt20, libgpg-
              error, libsodium (1.0.18+git20220815), libssh (0.9.6),
              m2crypto (0.38.0), mbedtls (2.28.1), minisign (0.10+git),
              nettle (3.7.3), ocserv (1.1.3), openssl (1.1.1q), openvpn
              (2.4.12), pycryptodome (3.11.0), pyopenssl (21.0.0),
              pysodium (0.7.12), python-cryptography (3.3.2), unbound
              (1.16.2), veracrypt (1.25.9 from ppa:unit193/encryption),
              zxcvbn-c (2.5)

   Graphics = cairo (1.16.0), darktable (4.0.0), djvulibre (3.5.28),
              enblend-enfuse (4.2), entangle (3.0), exiv2, gdk-pixbuf,
              geeqie (1.7.3), gexiv2 (0.12.1), ghostscript (9.55.0),
              giflib (5.1.9), gphoto2 (2.5.25), gmic (2.9.7), graphviz
              (2.42.2), gthumb (3.12.2), gtkimageview (1.6.4), hugin
              (2021.0.0), ilmbase (3.1.5 = imath), ilmbase25 (2.5.8),
              imagej (1.53s), imlib (1.7.4), jasper, jbig2dec (0.19),
              jpeg-xl, jxrlib (1.2~git), leptonlib (1.79.0), lerc (3.0),
              libavif (0.10.1), libemf (1.0.13), libexif (0.6.24),
              libgav1, libgd2 (2.3.0), libgphoto2 (2.5.25), libheif
              (1.12.0), libjpeg-turbo (2.1.2), libpng1.6 (1.6.37), libraw,
              libsixel (1.10.3), libvigraimpex (1.11.1), libwebp (1.2.2),
              libwmf (0.2.12), libyuv (0.0.1832), nufraw, opencv, openexr
              (3.1.5), openexr25 (2.5.8), openjpeg2 (2.4.0), rawtherapee
              (5.8), skcms, tesseract (4.1.1), tiff (4.4.0), vtk6 (6.3.0),
              vtk7 (7.1.1), xscreensaver (6.02)

 Multimedia = alsa-{lib,plugins,tools,*-conf,utils} (1.2.2 Xenial/Bionic),
              aom, ardour (6.9.0), aribb24 (1.0.3+git), audacity (2.4.2),
              cecilia (5.4.1), chromaprint (1.5.1), codec2, dav1d, espeak,
              faad2 (2.10.0), fdk-aac (2.0.2), flite (2.2), fluidsynth,
              frei0r (1.7.0+git), grilo{-plugins}, gst-{libav,python}1.0,
              gst-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly}1.0, gstreamer{-vaapi,1.0},
              guitarix (0.44.1), guvcview (2.0.7), hydrogen (1.1.1+git),
              intel-gmmlib, intel-media-driver{-non-free}, ir.lv2 (1.3.4),
              jackd2 (1.9.21), kdenlive (22.04.1 Focal/Jammy), ladspa-sdk,
              libass (0.16.0), libbluray, libburn (1.5.4), libdca (0.0.7),
              libde265, libdvd{nav,read}, libebml, libebur128 (1.2.6),
              libgav1 (0.18.0), libisoburn (1.5.4), libkeyfinder (2.2.6),
              libldac (2.0.2.3+git20200429), libmatroska, libmtp (1.1.19),
              libmysofa, libnice (0.1.18), libogg (1.3.5), libopenmpt
              (0.6.4 Jammy / 0.5.18 other), *modplug (0.8.9.0-openmpt1-2),
              librist (0.2.7), librnnoise, libsamplerate (0.2.2), libsbsms
              (2.2.0), libsdl{1.2,2} (& more sdl 1.2/2), libshout (2.4.5),
              libshout-idjc (2.4.4), libsndfile (1.0.31), libsoxr (0.1.3),
              libsrtp2 (2.4.2), libstb, libusrsctp, libva{-utils}, libvmaf
              (2.3.1), libvorbis (1.3.7), libvpx, lilv (0.24.12), linphone
              (4.4.35), linphone-desktop (4.2.5 Focal/Jammy and for other
              see ppa:savoury1/qt-5-15), lirc, lmms (1.2.2), lsp-plugins
              (1.1.30), lv2 (1.18.2), mda-lv2 (1.2.6), mediainfo (22.06),
              mediastreamer2 (4.4.35), mixxx (2.3.3), mlt (7.8.0),
              monkeys-audio (8.18), mpg123 (1.30.0), muse (4.1.0+git),
              musescore2 (2.3.2), musescore3 (3.2.3), norm (1.5.9), obs-
              studio (27.2.4), onevpl (2022.1.5), openal-soft (1.19.1),
              openh264 (2.2.0), opus (1.3.1), orc (0.4.32), ortp (4.4.34),
              picard, pipewire (0.3.56), pipewire-media-session (0.4.1),
              pocketsphinx{-python}, portaudio19 (19.7.0), pysdl2 (0.9.7),
              qsynth (0.9.7), qtractor (0.9.26), rosegarden (22.06),
              rtaudio (5.2.0), rtmidi (5.0.0), rubberband, sbc (1.5),
              serd (0.30.10), simde (0.7.2), sndio, sord (0.16.8),
              soundtouch (2.3.1), speech-dispatcher (0.11.1), speex{dsp}
              (1.2.0), sratom (0.6.8), srt, suil (0.10.10), svt-av1,
              taglib, v4l-utils (1.22.1), v4l2loopback (0.12.5), vamp-
              plugin-sdk (2.10.0), vorbis-tools (1.4.2), wavpack (5.4.0),
              x264, x265, xine-lib-1.2 (1.2.12), xine-ui (0.99.13),
              youtube-dl (2021.12.17), youtube-dlg, yt-dlp (2022.06.29),
              zam-plugins (3.14), zeromq3 (4.3.4), zita-convolver (4.0.3)

      Games = dbgl (0.83 DOSBox Game Launcher), doomsday (2.3.1), dosbox
              (0.74-3 bugfix), fizmo-{console,ncursesw,sdl2} (Z-Machine
              interpreter), gnuchess (6.2.7), libsdl2, mame (0.246),
              openttd (1.10.3 Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe), quakespasm
              (0.95.0), retroarch (1.10.3+git), scummvm{-tools} (2.6.0),
              stockfish (14.1), yquake2 (8.11~pre2+vk1.0.2-git+ctf1.0.8)

    Display = egl-wayland (1.1.9), emerald{-themes} (0.8.18), glfw3,
              intel-compute-runtime (21.32.20609), *gpu-tools (1.26+git),
              *graphics-compiler (1.0.11485), *opencl-clang (13.0.0),
              *vaapi-driver{-shaders} (2.4.1), *vc-intrinsics (0.5.0),
              khronos-opencl-{clhpp,headers} (3.0~2022.05.18), libdrm
              (2.4.111), libepoxy (1.5.10), libglu (9.0.2), libglvnd
              (1.4.0), libva{-utils}, libvdpau (1.5), llvm-toolchain-13,
              mesa (22.1.7), mesa-amber (21.3.9), mir (1.7.1), ocl-icd
              (2.2.14), shaderc, spirv-{headers,llvm-translator,tools},
              vdpauinfo (1.5), vulkan-{loader,tools,validationlayers},
              wayland (1.20.0), wayland-protocols (1.25), xorg (7.7+19),
              xorg-server (1.20.13), xorgproto (2021.5), xserver-xorg-
              {input-*,video-*} (many backported X.Org X server drivers)

   Virtual- = acpica-unix (20200925), augeaus (1.13.0), ceph (12.2.13 for
   isation .. Xenial only), device-tree-compiler (1.6.1), dmidecode (3.4),
              gfs2-utils (3.3.0), glusterfs (7.2), infinipath-psm, ipxe,
              libfabric (1.11.0), libisci (1.19.0), libnftnl (1.2.2),
              libosinfo (1.10.0), libpsm2 (11.2.185), libslirp, libtirpc,
              libvirt{-python} (8.0.0), *dbus (1.4.1), *{glib,php}, lsscsi
              (0.31), lxc/lxd (3.0.4 Xenial & Bionic), ndctl, nfs-utils,
              nftables (1.0.4), osinfo-db (20220516), parted (3.5),
              pci.ids (0.0~2022.05.18), pciutils (3.7.0), qemu (6.2),
              rdma-core (28.0), seabios, spice (0.15.0), spice-protocol,
              supermin (5.2.1), usb.ids (2022.05.20), virglrenderer,
              virt-manager (3.2.0+git20210210), virt-p2v (1.42.0),
              virt-v2v (1.45.99), vmem, xen (4.11.3+24), xfsprogs (5.6.0)

  Backports = 7zip (22.01), aria2 (1.36.0), bash (5.1.16), bcmwl (kernel
              5.10 fixes), claws-mail (3.18.0), clonezilla (5.2.2), curl
              (7.85.0), deluge (2.0.3), dnscrypt-proxy (2.0.45), e2fsprogs
              (1.46.5), exfat-utils (1.3.0), exfatprogs (1.1.3), f2fs-
              tools (1.14.0), filezilla (3.61.0), flatpak (1.12.7),
              freerdp2 (2.8.0), fuse{-exfat}, gawk (5.1.0), git (2.37.3),
              grep (3.7), hexchat (2.14.3), htop (3.2.1), hwloc (2.7.1),
              inxi (3.3.21), libarchive (3.6.0), libdeflate (1.8), libidn2
              (2.3.2), libjsoncpp (1.9.5), libpsl (0.21.0), libvncserver
              (0.9.13), libxml2 (2.9.13), libzstd (1.4.8), lz4 (1.9.4),
              lzip (1.23), mat2 (0.12.4), mate-dock-applet (21.10), mupdf
              (1.19.0), nano (6.4), nasm (2.15.05), nghttp2 (1.43.0),
              ntfs-3g (2021.8.22), onetbb (2021.5.0), p7zip{-rar} (16.02),
              partclone (0.3.20), parted, poppler (22.02.0), publicsuffix
              (20220614), remmina (1.4.27), rsync (3.2.3), sed (4.8),
              smartmontools (7.3), sqlite3 (3.37.2), tar (1.34), tigervnc
              (1.12.0), tinyxml2 (9.0.0), variety (0.8.9), wget (1.21.3),
              winetricks (0.0+20220411), wireshark (3.6.7), xapian-core
              (1.4.18), xxhash (0.8.1), xz-utils (5.2.5), yaml-cpp (0.6.3)

  Utilities = 4pane (7.0), gparted (1.3.1), indicator-sound-switcher
              (2.3.8), mainline, mc (4.8.26), meld (3.20.4), metamorphose2
              (0.9.0~beta), minisign (0.10), psensor (1.2.2~git20200717),
              rar (6.12), redshift (1.12), unrar-nonfree (6.1.7), ukuu
              (18.9.3), vnstat (2.9), xarchiver (0.5.4.18), xfe (1.43.2)

Build Tools = abseil (0~20220623.0), cmake (3.22.6), cowdancer (0.89),
              debhelper (11.3.5 Xenial & Bionic no dbgsym), debootstrap
              (1.0.125), distro-info (1.0), distro-info-data (0.53), dput
              (1.1.0), dwz (0.14), git-buildpackage (0.9.20), glslang,
              help2man (1.47.16), libeatmydata (105-8), libtg{owt,voip},
              lintian (2.104), meson (0.61.5), ninja-build (1.11.0),
              pbuilder (0.231), pristine-tar (1.49), pystring, scour
              (0.38.2), shaderc, shellcheck, spirv-{cross,headers,tools},
              vala (0.48.24 LTS), valgrind (3.17.0), zeroc-ice (3.7.6)

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About versions: The dash symbol (right-most dash if more than one) divides the "source version" (upstream) from "package version" (Ubuntu). A package version starting with "0ubuntu1~" can show the package was not in Debian (also possibly not in Ubuntu) when built, and a version that starts with "1ubuntu0~" shows the package was in Debian but not in Ubuntu when built.

Also, at this Launchpad site the number after the tag ("sav") follows two simple rules. If a "no-change" rebuild (no changes to package code at all, only to debian/changelog) the number increments by 0.1 (ie. ~16.04.sav0.1 after the official package version means a no-change rebuild of the Xenial package at this site has been done). Rebuilds including packaging changes (anything in debian/* apart from the changelog text) increment the number to the next integer (ie. ~16.04.sav0.1 will be incremented to ~16.04.sav1 if a new build is done including any changes at all to packaging code).

Furthermore, if the local package version starts with + (ie. +16.04.sav0) this is sometimes to show an intentional superseding of a version in the default Ubuntu repositories. This is done when a rebuild (eg. against the new OpenEXR/Imath graphics libraries, superseding older OpenEXR/IlmBase) results in a package updated beyond the official Debian/Ubuntu version.

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Background: Major uploads to this Launchpad site began in the last quarter of 2019 to make similar upgrades of various useful software running on my systems (via local builds) available to a wide audience. This project has now grown into one of backporting significant amounts of popular, useful and security critical software for the past 6+ years of Ubuntu versions.

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Note: There is absolutely no warranty offered and no liability assumed for any of the software packages published at this Launchpad site (meaning at any and all of the PPAs found here). The software published here may work well for you or it may not work at all and absolutely no responsibility is taken or assumed by me for anything that happens due use of this software.

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Bugs: Please report any bugs you find with any of these packages, as I am very much open to improvements. The available packages work well for me on my systems and also in various Ubuntu virtual machines setup for testing.

YMMV as is said in 21st century acronym-speak, with the computer field a truly vast repository (pardon the pun) of so many of the cryptic, obscure, and convoluted acronyms ever known (and mostly unknown) to humankind! ;-)