I can’t use Ubuntu 26.04 at the moment because most of my productivity applications depend on PPA packages. Unfortunately, PPAs are not yet available on Ubuntu 26.04, which is quite disappointing. Please, when does Canonical plan to add PPA support to Ubuntu 26.04?
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We don’t know which PPAs you are referring to but let’s be clear about something, PPAs are semi-official volunteer/community packages.
Canonical very kindly allows them to be hosted on Launchpad but if there are specific packages that interest you, please contact the maintainer/developer of the package and ask them when a version will become available for this release.
Additionally, there have been infrastructure issues recently due to attacks by bad actors and this has also affected the ability to update from the Launchpad PPA site.
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PPAs packages like Apache, PHP, OBS studio, Inkscape, mpv, etc
All of those are in the repo, or available as snaps and/or flatpaks. So you don’t need to wait for the maintainers to publish debs in PPAs.
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At least some of these might be available as Flatpak (or Snap) packages. Inkscape and OBS Studio have Flatpaks for sure. Flatpaks are almost always the latest versions.
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Thanks you Popey. I will try them
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Feel free to report back and let us know which ones you tried that worked well for you, in case others stumble on this thread and would also like to know.
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Sure, I will get back.
Thanks once again