Error: 'multiverse' invalid + Error: 'universe' invalid

Question

I have this Dockerfile:

FROM node:11
USER root
WORKDIR /tmp
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y software-properties-common
RUN add-apt-repository multiverse
RUN add-apt-repository universe

I am getting this error:

Error: 'multiverse' invalid
The command '/bin/sh -c add-apt-repository multiverse' returned a non-zero code: 1

How can I get this to work?

Solution 1

Thank you very much Alexander Mills, I had the same problem and I was able to solve it on my system (Q4OS 3.10.3) with:

sudo sed -i "/^# deb.*multiverse/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo sed -i "/^# deb.*universe/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list

Solution 2

I apparently solved it by doing this:

RUN sed -i "/^# deb.*multiverse/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list
RUN sed -i "/^# deb.*universe/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list

Instead of this:

RUN add-apt-repository multiverse
RUN add-apt-repository universe

Solution 3

But im still facing this problem😔