What type of equation is this?

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Is this equation an ODE or PDE

$$ \frac{d^3u}{dx^3}−αxu=0, x∈R $$

The only thing given is $\int_R u(x) =\pi $ and $α>0$ is some constant.

I have to find the solution using fourier transformation but we've only ever learnt for PDE since it is a PDE class.