How can I download deb package from a PPA?

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This is an example to download a deb file.

This can be done. But it need not be, if you add a PPA to the system.

e.g.:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:

But let's go on with the example of downloading.

Go to the PPA page, e.g. “Inkscape Developers” team

• Use the link eg. Inkscape Stable

• Use the link View package details

• Use the link eg. inkscape - 0.91.0+47~ubuntu15.04.1

• Use the link eg. inkscape_0.91.0+47~ubuntu15.04.1_amd64.deb

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Thanks to "A.B." - this is useful - an easier way is to just construct the URL from the PPA, so for ppa:inkscape.dev/stable
the URL is:
inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable/+packages

This gives the list of packages where you can choose the package for your distribution.
You can do this with a script - example: create script ppa.sh containing:

echo $* | awk -F/ '{ sub(".*ppa:","",$0) print ""$1"/+archive/ubuntu/"$2"/+packages" }'

Any of the following will then work:

./ppa.sh
./ppa.sh ppa:
./ppa.sh apt-add-repository ppa:
./ppa.sh sudo apt-add-repository ppa:

to give:

I just needed this too, but wanted an automated way to get the latest version of the .deb, without needing a browser every time.

Here's a full list of commands that you can put in a script and which always gets you the latest version .deb from the phpmyadmin ppa, whatever the latest version is at the time (replace nijel/phpmyadmin with the source of the ppa you're interested in):

sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:nijel/phpmyadmin
sudo apt-get update
cd /tmp
apt-get download phpmyadmin
sudo add-apt-repository -y -r ppa:nijel/phpmyadmin
sudo apt-get update

You will then have some phpmyadmin*.deb file in /tmp. The above will add and then remove the phpmyadmin ppa source from your system. If you don't want it removed, then just comment the last two lines.

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