Using PPAs on Debian the unix way

The other day I needed access the the Ubuntu Grails package and this seem to only be available through a PPA address: ppa:groovy-dev/grails

Looking on the web all I could find were some pages that wanted me to install extra software that would handle the ppa for me.  Well I hate not knowing what is happening so I looked a bit deeper and discovered how simple a PPA really is.

The above PPA converts to something like

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/groovy-dev/grails/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/groovy-dev/grails/ubuntu precise main 

Or you can just download the pachage directly from the URI:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/groovy-dev/grails/ubuntu/pool/main/g/

Hope this helps.  Most of this is right on the  launchpad page.

https://launchpad.net/~groovy-dev/+archive/grails