Using Y PPA Manager

Using Y PPA Manager

Y PPA Manager, a small application I've created, can list all the packages available in each PPA added on your system. It doesn't work with regular repositories (just Launchpad PPAs) though and the PPA needs to be enabled on your system for this to work. So it's not perfect.

But there are advantages over Synaptic / the command above:

• unlike Synaptic, it lists all the packages in a PPA, even if the exact same package (exact version) is available in multiple PPAs;
• unlike the command above, Y PPA Manager displays the package version next to the package name.

To lists all the packages in a PPA, install Y PPA Manager:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install y-ppa-manager

Then launch Y PPA Manager, double click "Manage PPAs", select the PPA and click "List packages".