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I found https://launchpad.net/ there's loads of applications to choose from there it seems like all of them. You've got to add the ppa, update then install the applications. This can be pretty cumbersome if you plan on installing a few with the terminal.

Is there a launchpad application that replaces the ubuntu software centre? Does the synaptic package manager index everything in launchpad? maybe that's what I'm looking for let me know cheers :)

After asking https://askubuntu.com/questions/532226/why-dont-developers-upload-to-the-ubuntu-software-centre

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Launchpad isn't a software repository. It's a developer platform around software for Ubuntu and other Debian-based distributions. As such it includes many software repositories, that are searchable with software center once they're configured locally.

There's a good reason to not include repositories where anybody can publish software to by default, because then anybody could trick people into installing their unsafe or malicious software packages instead of the official ones (see also “Are PPA's safe to add to my system and what are some “red flags” to watch out for?”). Canonical decides for themselves which packages go into their “official” repositories to mitigate the risk of harmful or malicious code. Other developers cannot insert software into those repositories without Canonical's consent.

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