Backports - various (Xenial & newer)
PPA description
Backports PPA (many & varied general system packages) for Xenial & newer.
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A comprehensive collection of general backports, bringing upgrades to many areas of the system for Ubuntu (LTS) releases spanning the past 8+ years.
UPDATE (27 May 2022): argon2, keepass2, keepassxc, and zxcvbn-c have been moved to ppa:savoury1/
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7zip{-rar} (24.09), abseil (20240116.2), amule (2.3.3), aria2 (1.37.0), armadillo (12.6.1), arpack (3.8.0), artha (1.0.5), asio (1.28.1), bash (5.2.32), bash-completion (2.14.0), bcg729 (1.1.1), bcmwl (with kernel 5.10 fix), boost1.81 (1.81.0), brotli (1.1.0), bzip2 (1.0.8), c-blosc (1.21.3), cairo (1.16.0 security fix), casacore (3.5.0), castxml (0.4.4), ccfits (2.6), cfitsio (4.2.0), chafa (1.14.5), charls (2.4.2), chmlib, chntpw (140201), cjson (1.7.17), claws-mail (3.18.0), clonezilla (5.7.8), clp (1.17.6), clzip (1.14), cmark (0.30.2), cmark-gfm (0.29.0.gfm.6), coinor-cbc (2.10.8), coinor-symphony (5.6.17), combblas (2.0.0), cpp-httplib (0.13.1), cppzmq (4.10.0), cpuinfo (0.0~git20220131), cups-pdf (3.0.1 fixed for Ghostscript >= 9.54.0), curl (7.88.1), deluge (2.0.3), dictionaries-common (1.28.14), discount (2.2.6), dmidecode (3.5), dnscrypt-proxy (2.0.45), dosfstools (4.2), drbl (5.3.13), e2fsprogs (1.46.5), ecbuild (3.6.5), eccodes (2.24.2), eigen3 (3.4.0), enchant-2 (2.2.15), ensmallen (2.18.2), exempi (2.5.2), exfat-utils (1.3.0), exfatprogs (1.2.6), expat (2.6.1), f2fs-tools (1.16.0), f3 (8.0), fatsort (1.6.5.640), filezilla (3.68.1), flatpak (1.12.7), flatpak-builder (1.2.2), flatpak-xdg-utils (1.0.5), fltk1.3 (1.3.8), fmtlib (9.1.0), fontconfig (2.13.1), fox1.6 (1.6.57), freeglut (3.4.0), freeipmi (1.6.10), freerdp2 (2.11.7), freetype (2.12.1), freexl (2.0.0), fuse (2.9.9), fuse-exfat (1.4.0), fuse3 (3.14.0), gawk (5.2.1), gdal (3.4.3), gddrescue (1.27), geoclue-2.0 (2.5.7), geos (3.12.0), gettext (0.21), gf-complete (1.0.2+
Jammy only (ppa:savoury1/
Focal & Jammy: glibmm2.68 (2.72.1), libdecor-0 (0.2.2 for libsdl2 >= 2.0.20), libsigc++-3.0 (3.2.0), qt4-x11 (4.8.7 not in official repositories)
Focal only: bind9 (9.18.28 rebuild with libuv1 1.43.0, see LP: #2055066), fop (9.1.0 = fmtlib / renamed source for i386), glibmm2.4 (2.66.2), glib-networking (2.72.0), gnome-keyring (3.36.0 rebuild for compat with new GLib), libcanberra (0.30), libcloudproviders (0.3.1), libdazzle (3.44.0), libdbi-perl (1.20 = libdeflate / renamed source for i386), libhandy-1 (1.6.1 requires GTK >= 3.24), libmbim (1.0.4 = libmd / renamed source for i386), libpeas (1.32.0), libsigc++-2.0 (2.10.4), metadata-cleaner (1.0.8 requires GTK >= 3.24), sysprof (3.44.0), webkitgtk (2.4.11 / not in official Focal repositories)
Bionic & Focal (use ppa:savoury1/
Bionic only (for Xenial use ppa:savoury1/
Xenial & Bionic: alglib, antiword (0.37 bugfixes), apr (1.6.5), apr-util, aspell (0.60.8), atlas, babeltrace (1.5.8), basemap (1.2.0), boost1.65.1 (libopenmpi3 rebuilds), bubblewrap, c-ares (1.15.0), cabextract (1.9), coinor-cgl (0.60.3), coinor-osi (0.108.6), coinutils (2.11.4), cpio (2.12), cracklib2 (2.9.6), dash-el, emacs (26.3+1), emacsen-common (3.0.4), enchant (1.6.0), fftw3 (3.3.8), fonts-liberation2, gcab (1.2), gdisk (1.0.5), gdk-pixbuf (2.40.0), geoip (1.6.12), geoip-database (20191224), gnome-keyring (3.28.2), gnuplot (5.2.8), gpsd (3.20), grub-customizer (5.1.0), gtkspell3 (3.0.10), hdf5 (1.10.0-patch1 libopenmpi3 rebuilds), hyphen, iozone3 (489), itk4 (4.1.0), jemalloc (5.2.1), json-c4 (0.13.1 renamed json-c), laszip (3.4.3), libaec, libb2 (0.98.1), libbfio, libcdk5 (5.0.20180306), libcdr, libewf, libgom, libgtop2 (2.40.0), libhdf4 (4.2.14), libidn, libimagequant, libjwt (1.10.2), libnetfilter-
Xenial only: afflib, apg, argtable2, asm (7.0), autogen, boost-defaults (1.65.1), bsd-mailx, btrbk (0.26), btrfs-progs (4.15.1), ca-certificates (20211016), clucene-core, coinmp, confuse, cups (2.2.7), ddrutility, distro-info (0.18ubuntu0.
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*** Current target series: Xenial, Bionic, Focal, Jammy, and Noble LTS ***
Note about Curl: Package here is a specialised one containing Curl 3 & 4 symbols and providing the libcurl3 package dependency, to allow install of software depending on libcurl3 even on Bionic and newer series. Please see https:/
Notes for Xenial systems:
* libva 1.8.3 with libva1 is here (Xenial software uses libva1), whereas libva 2.x with libva2 (Bionic and newer) is at ppa:savoury1/
* libvpx 1.7.0 with libvpx5 (Bionic era) is here for Xenial which ships with libvpx3) and libvpx >= 1.11 / libvpx7 is at ppa:savoury1/
* mate-dock-applet 0.90.gtk2 is based on a fork of MATE Dock Applet for GTK2 desktops, essentially a backport of 0.88 with various patches for GTK2 use (https:/
* perl rebuild is with pkgbinarymangler 144 to resolve a conflict when both amd64 and i386 libperl5.22 packages are installed (LP: #1574351). This problem occurs with certain upgrades, eg. when installing newer scanner drivers (sane-backends 1.0.29 in ppa:savoury1/
*** Install ***
Xenial & GNUPG: Backported GNUPG 2.1.23 here replaces 2.1.11 (default) and makes backport processes and upgrades easier, due many packaging changes between the two versions. However, it forces a requirement on newer APT for Xenial also, which is a positive due many improvements and bugfixes. So Xenial users wanting to upgrade to gnupg2 2.1.23 must do these steps:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Xenial & GCC 7.5.0 (FileZilla & nghttp2): Some backports require GCC >= 7 to install and run, due new source code using features in more modern GCC than 5.4.0 (Xenial default). FileZilla >= 3.50.0 and nghttp2 >= 1.41.0 are two examples of such software. For GCC 7.5.0 on Xenial at this Launchpad site: use ppa:savoury1/
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/
OR
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/
THEN
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
*** Build ***
This PPA has build dependencies on:
ppa:savoury1/
ppa:savoury1/
ppa:savoury1/
ppa:savoury1/
ppa:savoury1/
ppa:savoury1/
Additionally, for Xenial & Bionic:
ppa:savoury1/
ppa:savoury1/
Additionally, for Xenial only:
ppa:savoury1/
ppa:savoury1/
ppa:savoury1/
ppa:savoury1/
Adding this PPA to your system
You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:savoury1/backports to your system's Software Sources. (Read about installing)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:savoury1/backports sudo apt update
For questions and bugs with software in this PPA please contact Rob Savoury.
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24.09+dfsg-2~24.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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24.09+dfsg-2~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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24.09+dfsg-2~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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24.09+dfsg-2~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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24.09+ds-1~24.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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24.09+ds-1~22.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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24.09+ds-1~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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24.09+ds-1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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20240116.2-2~24.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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20240116.2-2~22.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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20240116.2-2~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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20240116.2-2~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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20240116.2-2~16.04.sav1 | Rob Savoury () |
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3.7.16-2build2~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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3.16.0-1~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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3.16.0-1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:2.3.3-3build1~22.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:2.3.3-3build1~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:2.3.3-3build1~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:2.3.3-3build1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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2.3-24~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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0.37-16~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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0.37-16~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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2.2.3.dfsg.1-5~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.6.5-1~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.6.5-1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.6.1-4~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.6.1-4~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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13-1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.37.0-0ubuntu1~22.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.37.0-0ubuntu1~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.37.0-0ubuntu1~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.37.0-0ubuntu1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:12.6.1+dfsg-2~22.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:12.6.1+dfsg-2~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:12.6.1+dfsg-2~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:12.6.1+dfsg-2~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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3.8.0-3~22.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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3.8.0-3~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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3.8.0-3~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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3.8.0-3~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.0.5-2~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.0.5-2~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.0.5-2~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:1.28.1-0.2~22.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:1.28.1-0.2~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:1.28.1-0.2~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:1.28.1-0.2~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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7.0-1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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0.60.8-1ubuntu0.1~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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0.60.8-1ubuntu0.1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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3.10.3-8ubuntu5~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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3.10.3-8ubuntu5~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:5.18.12-4~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.5.8-1~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.5.8-1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.2.0+dfsg-1~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.2.0+dfsg-1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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5.2.37-1ubuntu1~24.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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5.2.37-1ubuntu1~22.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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5.2.37-1ubuntu1~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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5.2.37-1ubuntu1~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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5.2.37-1ubuntu1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:2.14.0-1~22.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:2.14.0-1~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:2.14.0-1~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1:2.14.0-1~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.1.1-2~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.1.1-2~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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1.1.1-2~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu8~20.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu8~18.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu8~16.04.sav0 | Rob Savoury () |
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