Add to sources.list with a command? (not a redirect or text editor)

Question

I'm using Debian stable (squeeze) and found this command add-apt-repository but it's not found when I try use it.

I'm sure I've used a command before which added a repo but I can't remember what it was.

Solution 1

You can find the command apt-add-repository in Debian as well as Ubuntu. That command, or rather executable, is as the previous poster mentioned, in the python-software-properties package.

If you want to use the command on Debian, simply install the python-software-properties package this way;

 $ sudo apt-get update
 $ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties 

Then you'll be able to call the command this way;

$ add-apt-repository [OPTIONS] REPOSITORY

Solution 2

This command is contained in package python-software-properties.

Maybe you used this command in ubuntu (it's preinstalled in ubuntu karmic)?

Comments

[Daniel Andersson]

The answers are correct, but even better would have been if they had mentioned apt-file to help you help yourself in the future. In this case, you should have run apt-file search apt-add-repository to find the package which contains the command.

[tobych]

More on add-apt-repository at help.ubuntu.com/community/add-apt-repository: To add you need to follow the below syntax in your terminal: add-apt-repository 'deb uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...]' add-apt-repository ppa:<ppa_name> Examples: add-apt-repository 'deb packages.linuxmint.com julia main' add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-desktop

[knocte]

I just did this and add-apt-repository is still not there