Alternately, it could imply that the repository, or an individual application "update feed", gets installed along with the app. Further, I could imagine that what the site is actually proffering is a shell script that simply adds a repo repository and then calls apt.
Having checked: Clicking the "Install" button for the "RAR" app redirects to "apt:rar?section=multiverse", which, I imagine (not having Linux installed, I can't follow further) opens in Synaptic. Looking around, I can't find a link that doesn't point to either the default, universe, or multiverse repo, so I assume it just doesn't offer externals.
What would be good is if it can add the repositories to the sources.list so that upgrades would also be taken care of. I dont know if this is done already.
If the above is already done, a country specific repository list would be even better.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 41.0 ms ] thread2. You don't need the repositories installed to see the software, but it is nothing you couldn't achieve with other tools.
So does this imply that there are no software upgrades (including security upgrades) if I install something not in my repositories?
Having checked: Clicking the "Install" button for the "RAR" app redirects to "apt:rar?section=multiverse", which, I imagine (not having Linux installed, I can't follow further) opens in Synaptic. Looking around, I can't find a link that doesn't point to either the default, universe, or multiverse repo, so I assume it just doesn't offer externals.
The homepage is not so updated, it does not mention the last Ubuntu version.
I don't see who that site can be useful to.
If the above is already done, a country specific repository list would be even better.
This just seems like a web-based version of the software center, which isn't a bad thing but I don't really see myself using it.
The software on this website is, to so extend, in repositories NOT installt in Ubuntu by DEFAULT.
I hope this is clearer.