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I added a 3rd party software(terminator) PPA in Ubuntu 14.04 by running the command below:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gnome-terminator/ppa
sudo apt-get update

And now, when I search for that package using:

sudo apt-cache search terminator

It doesn't show anything.

I wanted to know, why it is behaving like this ?

g_p
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Naveen KS
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If you check the ppa page, you'll notice that there's no package version available for trusty (14.04):

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But you can install the terminator package from the Ubuntu universe repository:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) universe" 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install terminator
Sylvain Pineau
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  1. If you want to add a 3rd party software then, go to the Ubuntu official package site, search for the package, add the ppa from there and follow the normal steps as in:

    sudo apt-get update package-name
sudo apt-get install package-name

  2. You can also install 3rd party software without adding PPA also. Install the gdebi package first used for installing package from .deb file.

    sudo apt-get install gdebi

    Go to the Ubuntu official package site, search for the package name, then you are given the url path there to get .deb file of that package. Download it Then install it using gdebi.

    sudo gdebi package-name.deb
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Naveen KS
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Try these commands in a terminal window and see if they work for you:

      sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator

      sudo apt-get update

      sudo apt-get install terminator

I could not see any version of Terminator package built for Ubuntu 14.04 on the official page but if you still have problems with installing Terminator you can download latest version of Terminator from this link, and try installing it with GDEBI package manager rather than adding the ppa to your software sources list.

Taz D.
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