add-apt-repository: command not found

postcd · 03-02-2014, 02:49 PM

Quite hopeless, asking for help

tryign to do:

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethanak/milena
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sapi4linux python-pyspda python-sapilektor libsapilektor-utils

xx

Result

Code:

sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found

Tried apt-get install:
python-software-properties

it says: python-software-properties is already the newest version

please any idea how to make that add-apt-repository working?

knudfl · 03-02-2014, 03:04 PM

May be : $ apt-get install --reinstall python-software-properties
Debian wheezy https://packages.debian.org/search?s...apt-repository

You can also check if `/usr/bin/add-apt-repository' is installed by the package :
$ dpkg -L python-software-properties

Also : $ which add-apt-repository

Which OS is it ? Name and version, please.

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postcd · 03-03-2014, 04:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

May be : $ apt-get install --reinstall python-software-properties

Code:

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded.

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

You can also check if `/usr/bin/add-apt-repository' is installed by the package :
$ dpkg -L python-software-properties

This is output of that command: http://justpaste.it/elx0

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

Also : $ which add-apt-repository

This dont return anything

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

Which OS is it ? Name and version, please.

It is Debian Amnesia.

Code:

amnesia@amnesia:~$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 3.12-1-486 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.2 (Debian 4.8.2-10) ) #1 Debian 3.12.6-2 (2013-12-29)
amnesia@amnesia:~$ uname -a
Linux amnesia 3.12-1-486 #1 Debian 3.12.6-2 (2013-12-29) i686 GNU/Linux

evo2 · 03-03-2014, 04:35 AM

Hi,

I think add-apt-repository moved from the python-software-properties package to the
software-properties-common package about two years ago.

The apt-file command (in package of the same name) is useful in these situations. Eg
as root:

Code:

apt-file update

and then as a normal user

Code:

apt-file search add-apt-repository

and the output should tell you which package you need.

Cheers,

Evo2.

evo2 · 03-03-2014, 04:38 AM

Hi,

one more thing, AFAIK advertisements like the one in your signature are against forum rules (Ie the ones we all "agree" to when we sign up), so it might be nice to remove it before you get pinged by a mod.

Cheers,

Evo2.

postcd · 03-03-2014, 05:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evo2

I think add-apt-repository moved from the python-software-properties package to the
software-properties-common package about two years ago.

It returns this:

Code:

# sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
Package software-properties-common is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'software-properties-common' has no installation candidate

Quote:

apt-file update

apt-file search add-apt-repository

These commands returned command not found and when i tried to dpkg -i this: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/apt-file

it started saying this instead:

Code:

Can't locate Config/File.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/bin/apt-file line 23.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/apt-file line 23.