5 Useful List of ppas for Ubuntu 14.04

Being a developer using Ubuntu 14.04, you will always wanna use these 5 ppa

Posted by @krazedkrish on March 3, 2016

As a developer whenever you install ubuntu 14.04, you would wanna use these 5 ppas

  1. For Git 2.x 
    ppa:git-core/ppa
  2. Emacs Snapshot 
    ppa:ubuntu-elisp/ppa
  3. Tmux, vim, rxvt-unicode, swig, figlet-fonts, apt-cacher-ng 
    ppa:pi-rho/dev
  4. Nodejs 
    ppa:chris-lea/node.js

    you can also run the following script instead

    curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_5.x | sudo -E bash -
  5. Postgresql 
    wget --quiet -O - http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Note:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install <package name>