I can’t believe I did not know about this until now. You can search the Ubuntu PPAs on Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas
I found all kinds of cool packages. Some for new application, and some for updated versions. My favorites so far are: ldc, pcsx2, vlc, arora, gnome-colors, shrip, eclipse, and pitivi.
I made a new Shrip package. This is for the new 0.5 release.
http://workhorsy.org/junk/shrip_0.5.0-1_i386.deb
Source packages:
http://workhorsy.org/junk/shrip_0.5.0-1.diff.gz
http://workhorsy.org/junk/shrip_0.5.0-1.dsc
http://workhorsy.org/junk/shrip_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz
Updated:
Here is how to use shrip:
For example to encode episode 1 of Jericho from a DVD ISO to a matroska container with h.264 video and aac audio at 720×480, you would do this:
shrip encode –device=/media/archive2/JERICHO_S1_AC_D1.iso –title=3 –chapters=1-9 –audio=1 –scale=720:480 –crop=0:0:720:480 –container=mkv –video-codec=x264 [...]
Lately I’ve been researching how to create Ubuntu packages. For those that don’t know, packages are the Linux way of installing and managing software. Think Windows Update, but for all software on your computer. There are a few differences though: Each package will specify what versions of other packages it requires. This makes it trivial [...]