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 ?
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
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
