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How to Add Apt Repository In Ubuntu & Debian

Written by Rahul, Updated on May 6, 2020

This tutorial have describes two methods to configure Apt repository on your Ubuntu & Debian systems. The first method uses the add-apt-repository command to configure the repository for you. You can also use symlink command apt-add-repository. In any case, the command doesn’t exists on your system. The tutorial add-apt-repository command not found will help you.

Method 1 – Add Repository with add-apt-repository

Use the add-apt-repository (or symlink apt-add-repository) command to add launchpad PPA to your system. You just need to provide launchpad reference address as the following command.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa

You can fixed error add-apt-repository command not found if occurred.

For other hosted repositories, can be also configured by providing its reference as below:

add-apt-repository 'deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu wily-getdeb games'

Method 2 – Add Repository with Files

You can just create a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory. The file name must end with .list extension. The apt package manager also read repository configuration files from here.

For example:

vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/games.list

Add the repository paths as below.

deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu wily-getdeb games

Its good to use one repository per file but you can add multiple repository references in a single file as much as required.

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I, Rahul Kumar am the founder and chief editor of TecAdmin.net. I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) and working as an IT professional since 2009..

5 Comments

  1. Avatar Rob Reply
    August 7, 2019 at 1:33 pm

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/ppa
    LibreOffice test builds and backports

    This PPA will have what the Document Foundation calls “LibreOffice fresh”, the latest release of the newest series (but no alpha/beta releases).

    There is a PPA dedicated to specific LibreOffice major series which support a range of older Ubuntu releases too:
    https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-6-1 (“Fresh”)
    https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-6-0 (“Still”)
     (testbed for 18.04 LTS SRUs)
    https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-5-4 (EOL)
    https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-5-1 (EOL)
     (testbed for 16.04 LTS SRUs, EOL upstream)
    https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-4-2 (EOL)
     (testbed for 14.04 LTS SRUs, EOL upstream)

    Alpha and beta releases of a new major releases and the first release candidate of minor updates can be found at:
    https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/libreoffice-prereleases

    So much for other ppas.

    Please file bugs for these packages on launchpad as described in:
    https://lists.launchpad.net/libreoffice/msg00072.html

    This PPA might contain the release candidate that is assumed to become the final release even before it is declared so by the Document Foundation (e.g. usually release candidate 2 for minor updates).

    Most of the packages in this PPA have only experienced minor testing — in fact it is the place to enable a wider audience to test packages before they are published into the distro proper. In general, this PPA is _not_ for the average user to install without a closer look (if it would be, its packages would be in the main repositories). OTOH, it is _way_ _better_ to use packages from this PPA than using the *.deb files that The Document Foundation provides upstream, which are intentionally build against a very old baseline for maximum compatibility. So, _if_ you want to be on the bleeding edge, do it here, not with upstream *.debs.

    In general, users are advised to take a look at the changelog for the details about a package. If there is a specific bug that is intended to be addressed by an update released into the PPA, you are encouraged to test, if the update solves that problem. Packages published after the distro release are mostly such specific fixes. Critical fixes will be SRUed into the main repositories after testing anyway (later, with more testing).

    To return to the LibreOffice version from the main archive, use ppa-purge. see: http://www.webupd8.org/2009/12/remove-ppa-repositories-via-command.html for details
    More info: https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
    Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

    gpg: keybox ‘/tmp/tmpf5yudwep/pubring.gpg’ created
    gpg: key 83FBA1751378B444: 2 signatures not checked due to missing keys
    gpg: /tmp/tmpf5yudwep/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
    gpg: key 83FBA1751378B444: public key “Launchpad PPA for LibreOffice Packaging” imported
    gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
    gpg: Total number processed: 1
    gpg: imported: 1
    gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
    Exception in thread Thread-1:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py”, line 914, in _bootstrap_inner
    self.run()
    File “/usr/lib/python3.5/threading.py”, line 862, in run
    self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
    File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py”, line 688, in addkey_func
    func(**kwargs)
    File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py”, line 386, in add_key
    return apsk.add_ppa_signing_key()
    File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py”, line 273, in add_ppa_signing_key
    cleanup(tmp_keyring_dir)
    File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py”, line 234, in cleanup
    shutil.rmtree(tmp_keyring_dir)
    File “/usr/lib/python3.5/shutil.py”, line 480, in rmtree
    _rmtree_safe_fd(fd, path, onerror)
    File “/usr/lib/python3.5/shutil.py”, line 438, in _rmtree_safe_fd
    onerror(os.unlink, fullname, sys.exc_info())
    File “/usr/lib/python3.5/shutil.py”, line 436, in _rmtree_safe_fd
    os.unlink(name, dir_fd=topfd)
    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: ‘S.gpg-agent.extra’

    • Avatar S Reply
      January 12, 2021 at 9:15 pm

      It should be against the law to show how to add repository
      but not show how to remove repository

  2. Avatar Vincent Reply
    May 12, 2019 at 2:18 pm

    Thanks,

    For Ubuntu 18.04 this will do the trick:

    sudo add-apt-repository ‘deb https://www.collaboraoffice.com/repos/CollaboraOnline/CODE-ubuntu1804 ./’

  3. Avatar Medadyou Reply
    May 1, 2019 at 10:27 am

    Thanks

  4. Avatar Cheapcialis Reply
    April 21, 2018 at 1:53 pm

    Thanks for visiting Deb.

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