Ade Malsasa Akbar contact
Senior author, Open Source enthusiast.
Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 23:42


This is a list of PPA repositories for Ubuntu 17.04. This list includes many PPAs for popular applications such as GIMP, Inkscape, LibreOffice, Scribus, and Android Studio. I write this list in easy format with a reference link on each PPA mentioned. You should read the link before installing the PPA, for the sake of security and stability. I hope this list helps all 17.04 users a lot!

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This PPA list is for 17.04. If you want something else, we have similar PPA list for Ubuntu 16.04 and list for Ubuntu 16.10. If you don't know how to install a PPA, refer to PPA Howto.

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GIMP
https://launchpad.net/~otto-kesselgulasch/+archive/ubuntu/gimp

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp

Inkscape
https://launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/+archive/ubuntu/stable

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:inkscape.dev/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inkscape

Iridium
https://iridiumbrowser.de/downloads/linux.html

wget -qO - https://downloads.iridiumbrowser.de/ubuntu/iridium-release-sign-01.pub|sudo apt-key add -
cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/iridium-browser.list
deb [arch=amd64] https://downloads.iridiumbrowser.de/deb/ stable main
#deb-src https://downloads.iridiumbrowser.de/deb/ stable main
EOF
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install iridium-browser

LibreOffice
https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libreoffice

KDE Plasma
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt full-upgrade -y

Persepolis Download Manager
https://launchpad.net/~persepolis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:persepolis/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install persepolis

Plank
https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/ubuntu/docky

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/docky
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install plank 

Scribus
https://launchpad.net/~scribus/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scribus/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install scribus 

uGet Download Manager
https://launchpad.net/~plushuang-tw/+archive/ubuntu/uget-stable

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:plushuang-tw/uget-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install uget

Atom Editor
https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/atom 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install atom

Transmission BitTorrent
https://launchpad.net/~transmissionbt/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:transmissionbt/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install transmission

Brackets
https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team/+archive/ubuntu/brackets

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/brackets
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install brackets 

Krita
https://launchpad.net/~kritalime/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kritalime/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install krita

OpenShot
https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openshot

OpenShot (Bleeding Edge Version)
https://launchpad.net/~jonoomph/+archive/ubuntu/openshot-edge

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonoomph/openshot-edge
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openshot

Shotcut Video Editor
https://launchpad.net/~haraldhv/+archive/ubuntu/shotcut/

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:haraldhv/shotcut
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shotcut

Youtube Download Manager

https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/ubuntu/youtube-dl-gui

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flexiondotorg/youtube-dl-gui
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install youtube-dlg

CPU-G
https://launchpad.net/~atareao/+archive/ubuntu/atareao/

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cpu-g

Blender
https://launchpad.net/~thomas-schiex/+archive/ubuntu/blender

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

Wine
https://launchpad.net/~wine/+archive/ubuntu/wine-builds

wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
sudo apt-add-repository 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/'
sudo apt-get install wine-staging

FreeCAD
https://launchpad.net/~freecad-maintainers/+archive/ubuntu/freecad-daily

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freecad-daily 

LibreCAD
https://launchpad.net/~librecad-dev/+archive/ubuntu/librecad-daily

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:librecad-dev/librecad-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install librecad

VLC (Bleeding Edge Version)

https://launchpad.net/~videolan/+archive/ubuntu/master-daily

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/master-daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlc

Neovim (Bleeding Edge Version)
https://launchpad.net/~videolan/+archive/ubuntu/master-daily

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install neovim

Android Studio
https://launchpad.net/~maarten-fonville/+archive/ubuntu/android-studio

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-fonville/android-studio
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install android-studio

KiCAD
https://launchpad.net/~js-reynaud/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-4

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:js-reynaud/kicad-4
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kicad

KeePass 2
https://launchpad.net/~jtaylor/+archive/ubuntu/keepass

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jtaylor/keepass
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install keepass2