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What is a ppa? I tried installing vlc 2.2.1 but I found two PPAs and both of them seem to work? Is there no difference between them? Which one is better for future releases?

  1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-*

  2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:videolan/stable-daily
sudo apt-get install vlc

Also, why is sudo apt-get update always included in the steps of installing new software? Isn't Ubuntu supposed to be updated by its nature ?

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The main difference is that ppa:mc3man/trusty-media is available only for trusty.

The official PPA is ppa:videolan/stable-daily and currently available for 12.04,14.04,15.04.

Please refer ubuntu/trusty-media and ubuntu/stable-daily

apt-add-repository with a PPA as argument just adds a file into /etc/apt/source.list.d

apt-get update updates the packages to include the new repository.

Please refer AptGet/Howto

Note : There is another PPA available for VLC as well - please refer here

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