phablet-tools ppa install instructions are incorrect

[John McAleely]

On this page:

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/ubuntu-for-devices/installing-ubuntu-for-devices/

The section:

Prepare your Desktop
Here you learn how to prepare your Ubuntu Desktop system. After these steps are completed, you can connect your device to the Desktop and drive an installation from the Desktop.

Ensure you have the universe archive enabled
You need to install the ubuntu-device-flash package. This is published in the Ubuntu universe archive.

Ensure the universe archive is enabled.
Add PPAs (Trusty and before)
The SDK PPA provides additional tools needed to install Ubuntu for devices. Tools are provided for installation on Ubuntu Desktop starting with 12.04 Precise. You do not need to add the PPAs for Ubuntu Desktop 14.10 Utopic because the tools are available in the standard Ubuntu Universe archive component.

On your computer, press Ctrl+Alt+T to start a terminal.
Add the Ubuntu SDK Release PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa
Update your system to use the latest packages:
$ sudo apt-get update

Should be reworded:

Prepare your Desktop
Here you learn how to prepare your Ubuntu Desktop system. After these steps are completed, you can connect your device to the Desktop and drive an installation from the Desktop.

You need to install the ubuntu-device-flash package. This is published in the phablet-tools PPA

Add PPAs

The SDK PPA provides additional tools needed to install Ubuntu for devices. Tools are provided for installation on Ubuntu Desktop starting with 12.04 Precise.

On your computer, press Ctrl+Alt+T to start a terminal.
Add the Ubuntu SDK Release PPA:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa
Update your system to use the latest packages:
$ sudo apt-get update

Note that there is a no-longer updated version of the phablet-tools package in trusty/universe. Please use the PPA instead.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Daniel and I were already making the changes, I want it to tell everyone to use the sdk ppa and install tools they need from there as it contains the most up to date versions.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

This is still incorrect

"If you are running 14.04, you'll need to use the SDK from the release PPA. For 14.10 or later, the SDK version in the archives should meet your needs and this step can be skipped."

We want everyone to install the sdk ppa.

[John McAleely (john.mcaleely)]

@Pat - I don't see that text on the linked page anywhere. However, I do see this section "Ensure you have the universe archive enabled", which appears to be unecessary now. I'll open a bug.

[John McAleely (john.mcaleely)]

I raised bug #1418435

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Ah, the text Pat quoted is on https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/ubuntu-sdk/installing-the-sdk/

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Fixed.