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            <h1>Distribute software with updates<br /> directly to Ubuntu users</h1>
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                <strong>Publishing your software is simple with Launchpad's Personal Package Archives.</strong><br /><br />

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                Launchpad builds installable Ubuntu packages for multiple architectures and hosts them in your own software repository.










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                Installing applications from a PPA is just as easy as standard Ubuntu software, with updates automatically pushed to your users.








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8498.3.8
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            <div id="left-link-holder"><strong>Need a private PPA with restricted access?</strong><br /><a href="join-launchpad#commercial">Read about our beta for commercial subscribers &gt;</a></div>










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            <div id="link-holder"><a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas"><img src="images/see-it-action-button.png" alt="See it in action" title="Click to browse PPAs" /></a><br /><a href="https://help.launchpad.net/PPA">Read our PPA user guide &gt;</a></div>








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                        <h3>Automatic software distribution &mdash; with updates&#33;</h3>










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                        <h4>Publishing your software using a PPA is the easiest way to reach a wide audience of Ubuntu users.</h4>








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                            PPAs are the easiest and quickest way to get your software directly to Ubuntu users. Adding your PPA to an Ubuntu system takes just a few keystrokes &mdash; <code>add-apt-repository ppa:your-ppa</code> &mdash; and then all of your PPA's packages are just a few clicks away.










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                            Ubuntu and your PPA take care of any dependencies, either from the primary Ubuntu repositories or from other PPAs that you specify.










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                            And when you publish a new version of one of your packages, Ubuntu notifies all of your users of the update. It can even automatically install








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                            the updates if they prefer.








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                        <h4>Create multiple PPAs to serve different audiences. Use a team PPA to work with others.</h4>








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                            Want to distribute nightly builds to your developer community, beta versions to your test team and backports to another group? No problem. Create separate PPAs to serve each group.<br /><br />










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                            Teams can also have one or many PPAs. With team PPAs, any member of that team can upload new packages, making it a great way for groups of people to publish software collectively.<br /><br />








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                            If you have a team of developers working on a set of related packages, consider setting up a team PPA as a way to simplify coordination across each of those pieces of software.








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                        <h4>Launchpad builds your PPA packages for multiple architectures automatically.</h4>








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                            Even if you don&rsquo;t have the hardware yourself, Launchpad will create binaries for x86 and AMD64 architectures.








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