Is it possible to add Github releases link to Ubuntu sources.list?

Question

I actually reinstall my Ubuntu, and I need plenty of programs. Of course I want to use it in the newest versions. However, Ubuntu official repositories often include older versions of programs. So I need to download the newest versions manually, e.g. from Github.

Is it possible to add entry to Ubuntu /etc/apt/sources.list that make possible to download and automatically update programs from Github releases?

Something like:

deb https://github.com/git/git/releases

Any help will be apreciated.

Answer 1

I don't think it is directly possible, because I just found this:

• https://github.com/rpatterson/github-apt-repos

The github-apt-repos utility currently does roughly the following:

1. Download the *.deb files from the latest GitHub release for a git checkout from GitHub
2. Make an APT repository from the released *.deb files
3. Upload the APT repository to a special GitHub release which Debian/Ubuntu users can use to keep up-to-date.

... but it's supposed to run on a server, so it is not something you'd do on your PC (unless you set up an APT repository server on your PC, and go with that trouble).