apt-add-repository on 22.04

[Bret Busby]

On 10/5/22 3:20 am, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 10/5/22 2:00 am, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> Another problem I found it seems that
>>
>> apt-add-repository
>>
>> has been depreciated, is there an easy way to keep the various app's 
>> that need
>> repo's updated, over time I have made a lot of bash files with
>>
>> sudo apt-add-repository "repo"
>> sudo apt install -y "app from repo"
>> sudo apt-add-repository --remove "repo"
>>
>> but now non work, I can see it may be a way to force users to use 
>> snap, but
>> even for those who want that and can live with the extra load time 
>> (like for
>> FireFox) there are still many apps that are not snaps
>>
>>
>>
> 
> Why not simply use a text editor, such as vi, to add the suppository to 
> the .etc/apt/sources.list file?
> 
> sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
> 
> Simple.
> 


And, if using vi is too difficult, from memory, echo with redirection to 
append, can be used to insert the suppository; for example for seamonkey,

sudo echo "deb 
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all 
main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

(or, something like that)

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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