How to switch to this package vendor?

Question

I want to switch over to this patch vendor:

• https://launchpad.net/~no1wantdthisname/+archive/ppa

It promises a "better" font rendering with infinality, so I'd like to know how do I set up my freetype and cairo to be updated from his PPA.

Answer 1

Add the ppa to apt

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:no1wantdthisname/ppa

Refresh the packages

sudo apt-get update

And then install the packages

sudo apt-get install cairo
sudo apt-get install freetype

Run the scripts;

fontconfig-infinality
infinality-settings.sh

The last 2 may require root privs, if so prefix with sudo

Answer 2

You can use the following command to do it:

sudo apt-get install libcairo-gobject2 cairo-perf-utils libcairo2 freetype2-demos

Answer 3

I've added the PPA, then did force versions of the binary packages (they are 7-10 for cairo and freetype) through Synaptic.

However, Sathya's solution would work also, since PPA's got higher priority than Ubuntu official repos. You just have to apt install ... the binaries, not cairo/freetype cause there are no such packages (they are source packages).

One thing is to be said - there is no established way to change vendor for a particular package in APT. Zypp of OpenSuSe's got that.