• ItsPlasmaSir@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    PPAs and the AUR are very different. Where as PPAs contain prebuilt .deb packages, the AUR hosts PkgBuild scripts that typically pull from a git repo and compile a program for you.

    I understand the confusion though, because they accomplish the same goal of installing software that is not in the main repos, but in different ways.