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:/
*** Also https:/
*** Several PPAs now need the new private PPA for successful installation:
Blender; HandBrake; FFmpeg 5, 6 & git; mpv & mpv-git; and VLC 3. Any other
PPAs, with many very useful upgrades, are still freely usable by all. ***
Fun stats: Over 36,000 uploads since August 2019 of 5,800 unique packages!
(6 Aug 2024) Now 1,250 unique packages are published for 22.04 Jammy LTS,
2,400+ for 20.04 Focal LTS, and a whole lot extra for Xenial & Bionic LTS!
FFmpeg: Many PPAs at this Launchpad site depend on ppa:savoury1/
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:/
UPDATE (4 Jun 2024): Regarding Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, thanks to a new business
sponsor of FFmpeg 6.1.x builds there will now be a few packages published
for this new Ubuntu version. Only the dozen or so packages needed to build
FFmpeg 6.1.x with exactly the same features as for Ubuntu <= 22.04 will be
uploaded and only private PPA users (those who have donated) will be able
to install these FFmpeg 6.1.x builds for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Other packages
can also be sponsored, contact me if you would like more builds for Noble.
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 the minimal response to a recent crowd funding effort
for this purpose) there will be NO support for ARM architecture at this LP
site. If at any point someone(s) wants to fund this work then contact me.
*** 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:/
[ "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:/
UPDATE (16 Nov 2022): Also https:/
UPDATE (8 May 2022): See new https:/
the many Launchpad PPAs found here, ie. new packages built, bugfixes, etc.
*** 19 Apr 2023: Big thanks to a business patron of the PPAs, Ryan C.! ***
*** 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.! ***
*** Personal and Collective Responsibility Required ***
https:/
*** 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.
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 4,500+ 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/
*** Current target series: Xenial, Bionic, Focal, and Jammy 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 (now in beta) covering five systems for free.
https:/
maintenance-esm for further details and https:/
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 & 6.1.1).
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Collection | Highlights of packages included
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Chromium = chromium-browser (128.0.6613.137 latest stable release)
Firefox = firefox (129.0.2+build1 for Jammy only, already available in
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
GIMP = babl (0.1.108), exiv2, gegl (0.4.48), gimp, gmic (2.9.9),
(v2.10.38) jasper, jpeg-xl (0.8.2), lcms2 (2.14), libde265 (1.0.12),
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 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
Focal use with Qt 5.15 backports see ppa:savoury1/
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
[ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]
mpv = mpv, mujs (1.3.3), playerctl (2.4.1), vapoursynth (R55)
(v0.38.0) [ 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
[ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]
Handbrake = handbrake (1.7.3, 1.1.2 Xenial or ppa:savoury1/
(v1.7.3) [ also requires ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg for successful install ]
FFmpeg 7 = chromaprint, ffmpeg, highway, jpeg-xl, lcms2, skcms
(v7.0.2) [ 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 (3.9.0), aribb24, codec2 (1.2.0), dav1d (1.4.3), ffmpeg,
(v4.4.5) fluidsynth (2.3.5), gst-{libav,
sndio (1.9.0), srt, x264, x265
PipeWire = libcamera (0.3.1), libffado (2.4.9), libfreeaptx (0.1.1),
(v1.2.3) liblc3 (1.1.1), pipewire, pipewire-
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), keepassxc (2.7.8),
Graphics = cairo (1.16.0), darktable (4.8.0), djvulibre (3.5.28),
vtk6 (6.3.0), vtk7 (7.1.1), xscreensaver (6.08)
Multimedia = alsa-{lib,
aom, ardour (8.4.0), aribb24 (1.0.3+git), audacity (3.3.3),
faad2 (2.11.1), fdk-aac (2.0.2), flac (1.4.3), flite (2.2),
see ppa:savoury1/
opus (1.5.2), orc (0.4.34), ortp (4.4.34), picard, pipewire,
zimg (3.0.5), zita-convolver (4.0.3)
Games = dbgl (0.83 DOSBox Game Launcher), doomsday (2.3.1), dosbox
Display = egl-wayland (1.1.13), emerald{-themes} (0.8.18), glfw3,
input and video drivers)
Virtual- = acpica-unix (20200925), augeaus (1.13.0), ceph (12.2.13 for
isation .. Xenial only), device-
Backports = 7zip (24.07), aria2 (1.37.0), bash (5.2.26), bcmwl (kernel
5.10 fixes), claws-mail (3.18.0), clonezilla (5.6.6), curl
tools (1.16.0), filezilla (3.67.1), flatpak (1.12.7),
grep (3.11), hexchat (2.14.3), htop (3.3.0), hwloc (2.10.0),
inxi (3.3.35), libarchive (3.7.2), libdeflate (1.20), libidn2
lzip (1.23), mat2 (0.13.4), mate-dock-applet (21.10), mupdf
Utilities = 4pane (8.0), gparted (1.5.0), indicator-
rar (6.23), redshift (1.12), unrar-nonfree (6.2.10), ukuu
Build Tools = abseil (20240116.1), cmake (3.26.6), cowdancer (0.89),
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! ;-)
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