A collection of PPAs giving significant upgrades for the past 8+ years of
Ubuntu (LTS) releases. Popular software here: Blender, Chromium, digiKam,
FFmpeg, Firefox, GIMP, GPG, Inkscape, LibreOffice, mpv, Scribus, and VLC.

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 ***

*** Several PPAs now need the new private PPA for successful installation:
Blender; HandBrake; FFmpeg 5, 6, 7 & git; mpv{,-git}; and VLC 3. Any other
PPAs, with many very useful upgrades, are still freely usable by all. ***

Fun stats: Over 37,000 uploads since August 2019 of 5,800 unique packages!
(19 Jan 2025) Now 160 unique packages published for 24.04 Noble LTS; 1,280
for 22.04 Jammy; 2,430 for 20.04 Focal; and many more for Xenial & Bionic!

UPDATE (5 Dec 2024): Regarding Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, due to various requests
from people who have donated to support this project there is now a steady
flow of packages being added to various PPAs here for the new LTS release.

[ Next paragraph is only relevant for Ubuntu <= 22.04 LTS based systems! ]
FFmpeg: Many PPAs at this Launchpad site depend on ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4 as
version >= 4.4 is best and/or required for much other software. So, assume
that upgrading to latest FFmpeg 4.4.5 will be required to use most of the
popular PPAs here: https://launchpad.net/~savoury1/+archive/ubuntu/ffmpeg4

*** Please DO NOT contact the Ubuntu Launchpad team about software at PPAs
as that is NOT their responsibility! Do NOT expect "full" FFmpeg builds to
be available to you if you have not donated. Only those who have donated
will have access to FFmpeg builds with all supported features. All future
improvements to FFmpeg builds here will also only be for supporters. ***

*** 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.. ;-)

UPDATE (17 Aug 2023): Also https://bsky.app/profile/robsavoury.bsky.social
UPDATE (16 Nov 2022): Also https://norden.social/@RobSavoury for updates.
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.

         *** Personal and Collective Responsibility Required ***
               https://medium.com/@RobSavoury/1ab067f738a4

*** Information about "subscriber only" access to the new private PPA: ***

People have been writing to me asking what amount of donation is required
for access to the private PPA. In response to this question, be aware that
any donation will not automatically give you such access. Various factors
will be considered before granting access, including whether or not use of
the private PPA will be for a profit-making enterprise (paragraph below).
It is up to you to be ethical, honest, and responsible about the donation
amount you give. Details such as personal income, means, and situation do
vary considerably, as well as if the PPAs are for personal use or profit.

BUSINESS ENTERPRISES: If you are donating for any profit-making enterprise
then please simply state this fact honestly when you make your donation.
Please also write the specific business or company name that is wanting to
access the private PPA based on your donation. An honourable amount based
on benefits received is appreciated. Many profit-making enterprises have
been using my PPA work here for years and only a handful have ever donated
one dollar to support all this work, which is of course totally unethical.

*** Information about requesting specific package builds at PPAs here: ***

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 5,000+ 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.

ARM architecture: Due an evident lack of interest and/or resources for the
builds of ARM packages from the community of Ubuntu users benefiting from
SavOS PPAs (shown by a minimal response to an Indiegogo crowd funding for
this purpose) there will be NO support for ARM architecture at this site.
If at any point someone(s) wants to fund this work then please contact me.

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

Long Term Support (LTS) releases are the main focus at this site. If still
running 16.04 or 18.04 systems now that the five year LTS maintenance time
period has expired then it is recommended to enable ESM (Extended Security
Maintenance) with Ubuntu Pro with support for up to five systems for free.

https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-16-04-lts-transitions-to-extended-security-
maintenance-esm for further details and https://ubuntu.com/pro 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 4.4.5 & 6.1.2).

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

   Chromium = chromium-browser (128.0.6613.137 latest stable release)

    Firefox = firefox (129.0.2+build1 for Jammy only, already available in
              official Focal repos, builds not working for Xenial/Bionic)

    digiKam = digikam, exiv2 (0.27.6), jasper (4.2.4), lensfun (0.3.4),
    (v7.10.0) opencv (4.5.4 Jammy / 4.2.0 imath rebuilds), openexr, qtav
              (1.13.0 libswresample rebuilds), tiff (4.6.1~git), x265

       GIMP = babl (0.1.110), exiv2, gegl (0.4.52), gimp, gmic (2.9.9),
   (v2.10.39) jasper, jpeg-xl (0.11.1), lcms2 (2.14), libde265 (1.0.15),
              libheif (1.19.3), libmypaint (1.6.0), libraw (0.21.3),
              libspiro (20221101), mypaint-brushes, nufraw (0.43-3),
              poppler (22.02.0), skcms (0.0~20220520)

   Inkscape = cairo, harfbuzz (8.3.0), inkscape (1.2.2 Focal & Jammy only,
     (v1.2.2) 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

    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)

    Blender = alembic-io (1.8.6), blender, blender-293 (2.93.18 old LTS),
    (v3.6.11) blender-git (4.1.0~rc), blender-lts (3.3.18), collada-dom
              (2.5.0), embree (3.13.4), llvm-toolchain-15 (15.0.7),
              nanovdb (32.3-3), opencollada (1.6.68), opencolorio (2.2.1),
              openimagedenoise (2.2.2), openimageio (2.5.11.0), openjpeg2,
              openscenegraph (3.6.5), openshadinglanguage (1.12.14.0),
              opensubdiv (3.5.0), openvdb (9.1.0), python3.9 (3.9.19),
              python3.10 (3.10.14), python3.11 (3.11.9), robin-map
              (1.0.1), tbb (2020.3), usd (22.11), yaml-cpp (0.7.0)
              [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

        mpv = mpv, mujs (1.3.5), playerctl (2.4.1), vapoursynth (R55)
    (v0.39.0) [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

      VLC 3 = dav1d, fluidsynth, libdvdnav (6.1.1), libdvdread (6.1.3),
    (v3.0.21) libebml (1.4.5), libmatroska (1.7.1), lirc (0.10.2), libnfs
              (5.0.2), protobuf (3.12.4), pupnp (1.14.19), srt (1.5.3),
              taglib (1.13.1), vlc, x264 (0.164.3191), x265 (3.6)
              [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

  Handbrake = handbrake (1.7.3, 1.1.2 Xenial or ppa:savoury1/gtk-xenial)
     (v1.7.3) [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

   FFmpeg 7 = chromaprint, ffmpeg, highway, jpeg-xl, lcms2, skcms
       (v7.1) [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

   FFmpeg 6 = chromaprint, ffmpeg, highway, jpeg-xl, lcms2, skcms
     (v6.1.2) [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

   FFmpeg 5 = chromaprint, ffmpeg, highway, jpeg-xl, lcms2, skcms
     (v5.1.6) [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]

   FFmpeg 4 = aom (3.11.0), codec2 (1.2.0), dav1d (1.5.0), ffmpeg,
     (v4.4.5) fluidsynth (2.4.2), gst-{libav,python}1.0 (gst* = 1.24.10),
              gst-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly}1.0, gstreamer{-vaapi,1.0},
              intel-gmmlib (22.5.5), intel-media-{driver,driver-non-free}
              (24.4.4), intel-mediasdk (23.2.2), libbluray (1.3.4),
              libdvd{nav,read}, libmysofa (1.3.2), libsdl2 (2.30.11),
              libva{-utils} (2.22.0), libvpx (1.15.0), rubberband (3.3.0),
              sndio (1.10.0), srt, x264, x265

   PipeWire = libcamera (0.4.0), libffado (2.4.9), libfreeaptx (0.1.1),
     (v1.2.7) liblc3 (1.1.1), pipewire, pipewire-media-session (0.4.2),
              qpwgraph (0.8.1), roc-toolkit (0.3.0), sbc (2.0),
              webrtc-audio-processing (1.3), wireplumber (0.5.7)

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

      GPG 2 = gnupg2, gpa, gpgme1.0, libassuan, libgcrypt20 (1.10.3),
    (v2.2.41) libgpg-error (1.47), libksba (1.6.5), p11-kit, python-gnupg

 Encryption = argon2 (0~20190702), botan (2.19.4), gnutls28 (3.7.3),
              gsasl (2.2.0), keepass2 (2.57.1), keepassxc (2.7.9),
              libsodium (1.0.21~git20240801), libssh (0.10.6), m2crypto
              (0.38.0), mbedtls (2.28.8), minisign (0.11), nettle (3.7.3),
              ocserv (1.1.6), olm (3.2.13), openssl (1.1.1w), openvpn
              (2.4.12), pycryptodome (3.11.0), pyopenssl (21.0.0),
              pysodium (0.7.17), python-cryptography (3.3.2), radcli
              (1.2.12), tpm2-tss (2.4.6), unbound (1.16.2), veracrypt
              (1.25.9 from ppa:unit193/encryption), zxcvbn-c (2.5)

   Graphics = cairo (1.16.0), darktable (4.8.1), djvulibre (3.5.28),
              enblend-enfuse (4.2), entangle (3.0), exiv2, gdk-pixbuf,
              geeqie (2.5), gexiv2 (0.14.3), ghostscript (9.55.0),
              giflib (5.1.9), gphoto2 (2.5.28), gmic (2.9.9), graphviz
              (2.42.2), gthumb (3.12.6), gtkimageview (1.6.4), hugin
              (2024.0.1), ilmbase (3.1.11 = imath), ilmbase25 (2.5.8),
              imagej (1.54g), imlib2 (1.12.3), jasper, jbig2dec (0.19),
              jpeg-xl, jxrlib (1.2~git), leptonlib (1.79.0), lerc (4.0.0),
              libavif (1.0.4), libemf (1.0.13), libexif (0.6.24),
              libgav1, libgd2 (2.3.0), libgphoto2 (2.5.31), libheif
              (1.19.5), libjpeg-turbo (2.1.5), libpng1.6 (1.6.44), libraw,
              libsixel (1.10.3), libvigraimpex (1.11.2), libwebp (1.4.0),
              libwmf (0.2.12), libyuv (0.0.1898), nufraw, opencv, openexr
              (3.2.4), openexr25 (2.5.8), openjpeg2 (2.5.0), rawtherapee
              (5.10), shotwell (0.32.10), skcms, tesseract (4.1.1), tiff
              (4.7.0), vtk6 (6.3.0), vtk7 (7.1.1), xscreensaver (6.08)

 Multimedia = alsa-{lib,plugins,tools,*-conf,utils} (1.2.6 for < 22.04),
              aom, ardour (8.4.0), aribb24 (1.0.3+git), audacity (3.3.3),
              cecilia (5.4.1), chromaprint (1.5.1), codec2, dav1d, espeak,
              faad2 (2.11.1), fdk-aac (2.0.2), flac (1.4.3), flite (2.2),
              frei0r (1.8.0), grilo{-plugins}, gst-{libav,python}1.0,
              gst-plugins-{bad,base,good,ugly}1.0, gstreamer{-vaapi,1.0},
              guitarix (0.44.1), guvcview (2.0.8), 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 (0.17.3), libbluray, libburn (1.5.4), libdca (0.0.7),
              libde265, libdvd{nav,read}, libebml, libebur128 (1.2.6),
              libgav1 (0.19.0), libisoburn (1.5.4), libkeyfinder (2.2.6),
              libldac (2.0.2.3+git20200429), libmatroska, libmtp (1.1.21),
              libmysofa, libnice (0.1.21), libogg (1.3.5), libopenmpt
              (0.7.3), *modplug (0.8.9.0-openmpt1-2), libopusenc (0.2.1),
              librist (0.2.7), librnnoise, libsamplerate (0.2.2), libsbsms
              (2.2.0), libsdl{1.2,2} (& more sdl 1.2/2), libshout (2.4.6),
              libshout-idjc (2.4.4), libsndfile (1.0.31), libsoxr (0.1.3),
              libsrtp2 (2.5.0), libstb, libusrsctp, libva{-utils},
              libvorbis (1.3.7), libvpx, lilv (0.24.24), 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
              (1.2.14), lv2 (1.18.10), mda-lv2 (1.2.10), mediainfo (24.06),
              mediastreamer2 (4.4.35), mixxx (2.4.0), mlt (7.22.0),
              monkeys-audio (10.43), mpg123 (1.32.5), muse (4.2.1),
              musescore2 (2.3.2), musescore3 (3.2.3), norm (1.5.9), obs-
              studio (29.1.3), openal-soft (1.23.1), openh264 (2.4.1),
              opus (1.5.2), orc (0.4.40), ortp (4.4.34), picard, pipewire,
              pipewire-media-session, pocketsphinx, portaudio19 (19.7.0),
              pysdl2 (0.9.7), qsynth (0.9.12), qtractor (0.9.39),
              rosegarden (22.12.1), rtaudio (6.0.1), rtmidi (5.0.0),
              rubberband, sbc, serd (0.32.2), simde (0.7.2), sndio, sord
              (0.16.16), soundtouch (2.3.1), speech-dispatcher (0.11.1),
              speex{dsp} (1.2.1), sratom (0.6.16), srt, suil (0.10.20),
              taglib, v4l-utils (1.26.1), v4l2loopback (0.12.5), vamp-
              plugin-sdk (2.10.0), vorbis-tools (1.4.2), wavpack (5.6.0),
              wireplumber, x264, x265, xine-lib-1.2 (1.2.13), xine-ui
              (0.99.14), youtube-dl (2021.12.17), youtube-dlg, yt-dlp
              (2024.12.13), zam-plugins (3.14), zeromq3 (4.3.5),
              zimg (3.0.5), 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 (0.272),
              openttd (13.4 Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe), quakespasm
              (0.96.3), retroarch (1.19.1), scummvm{-tools} (2.8.1),
              stockfish (16), yquake2 (8.41 with Vulkan support)

    Display = egl-wayland (1.1.13), emerald{-themes} (0.8.18), glfw3,
              intel-compute-runtime (23.35.27191.42), *gpu-tools (1.29),
              *graphics-compiler (1.0.15136.24), *vaapi-driver{-shaders}
              (2.4.1), *vc-intrinsics (0.13.0), khronos-opencl-{clhpp,
              headers} (3.0~2023.12.14), libdrm (2.4.123), libepoxy
              (1.5.10), libglu (9.0.2), libglvnd (1.7.0), libva{-utils},
              libvdpau (1.5), llvm-toolchain-17 (17.0.6), mesa (24.0.9),
              mesa-amber (21.3.9), mir (1.7.1), ocl-icd (2.3.2), opencl-
              clang-17 (17.0.0), spirv-llvm-translator-17 (17.0.0),
              vdpauinfo (1.5), vulkan-{loader,tools,validationlayers},
              wayland (1.23.0), wayland-protocols (1.38), xorg (7.7+19),
              xorg-server (1.20.13), xorgproto (2021.5), xserver-
              xorg-{input-*,video-*} (various backported X.Org X server
              input and video 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), libiscsi (1.19.0), libnftnl (1.2.2),
              libosinfo (1.10.0), libpsm2 (11.2.185), libslirp, libtirpc,
              libvirt (8.10.0), *dbus (1.4.1), *{glib,php,python}, lsscsi
              (0.31), lxc/lxd (3.0.4 Xenial & Bionic), ndctl, nfs-utils,
              nftables (1.0.4), osinfo-db (20221130), parted (3.5),
              pci.ids (0.0~2023.01.14), pciutils (3.7.0), qemu (7.2),
              rdma-core (28.0), seabios, spice (0.15.0), spice-protocol,
              supermin (5.2.1), usb.ids (2023.01.16), virglrenderer
              (0.9.1), virt-manager (4.1.0), virt-p2v (1.42.3), virt-v2v
              (1.45.99), vmem, xen (4.11.3+24), xfsprogs (5.13.0)

  Backports = 7zip (24.09), aria2 (1.37.0), bash (5.2.37), bcmwl (kernel
              5.10 fixes), claws-mail (3.18.0), clonezilla (5.6.13), curl
              (7.88.1), deluge (2.0.3), dnscrypt-proxy (2.0.45), e2fsprogs
              (1.46.5), exfat-utils (1.3.0), exfatprogs (1.2.4), f2fs-
              tools (1.16.0), filezilla (3.67.1), flatpak (1.12.7),
              freerdp2 (2.11.5), fuse{-exfat}, gawk (5.2.1), git (2.47.0),
              grep (3.11), hexchat (2.14.3), htop (3.3.0), hwloc (2.10.0),
              inxi (3.3.35), libarchive (3.7.2), libdeflate (1.22), libidn2
              (2.3.7), libjsoncpp (1.9.5), libpsl (0.21.0), libvncserver
              (0.9.14), libxml2 (2.9.13), libzstd (1.5.6), lz4 (1.9.4),
              lzip (1.23), mat2 (0.13.4), mate-dock-applet (21.10), mupdf
              (1.23.7), nano (7.2), nasm (2.16.01), nghttp2 (1.55.1),
              ntfs-3g (2022.10.3), onetbb (2021.9.0), p7zip{-rar} (16.02),
              partclone (0.3.32), parted, poppler (22.02.0), publicsuffix
              (20221208), remmina (1.4.36), rsync (3.2.7), sed (4.9),
              smartmontools (7.4), sqlite3 (3.37.2), tar (1.35), tigervnc
              (1.13.1), tinyxml2 (9.0.0), variety (0.8.11), wget (1.24.5),
              winetricks (20240105), wireshark (3.6.8), xapian-core
              (1.4.18), xxhash (0.8.2), xz-utils (5.4.7), yaml-cpp (0.6.3)

  Utilities = 4pane (8.0), gparted (1.6.0), indicator-sound-switcher
              (2.3.9), mainline, mc (4.8.31), meld (3.20.4), metamorphose2
              (0.9.0~beta), minisign (0.11), psensor (1.2.2~git20210506),
              rar (7.00), redshift (1.12), unrar-nonfree (7.0.9), ukuu
              (18.9.3), vnstat (2.12), xarchiver (0.5.4.23), xfe (1.46.2)

Build Tools = abseil (20240116.1), cmake (3.26.6), cowdancer (0.89),
              debhelper (11.3.5 Xenial & Bionic with patches), debootstrap
              (1.0.134), distro-info (1.0), distro-info-data (0.63), dput
              (1.1.2), dwz (0.15), git-buildpackage (0.9.20), help2man
              (1.49.2), libeatmydata (131), libtg{owt,voip}, lintian
              (2.104), meson (1.3.2), ninja-build (1.12.1), pbuilder
              (0.231), pristine-tar (1.49), rustc (1.75.0), shellcheck,
              vala (0.48.25 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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* Copyright note: The "SavOS" name & logo are copyright (C) Rob Savoury *

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 8+ years of Ubuntu versions.

-----START USUAL DISCLAIMER-----

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.

-----END USUAL DISCLAIMER-----

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! ;-)