How to add repository from shell in Debian?

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In Ubuntu one can add a repository via following command - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair As Ubuntu is based on Debian code base, I was expecting that the same would work in Debian too, but it doesn't. What is the reason for this? Is there some other shell command I can use to achieve the same? Note: I know I can edit /etc/apt/sources.list , but I want to achieve this from the shell. I also want to know why the same command...

Originally asked by Kshitiz Sharma on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Debian Jessie and later (2014-) As pointed out by @voltagex in the comments, it can now be found in the software-properties-common package: sudo apt-get install software-properties-common Debian Wheezy and earlier: The program add-apt-repository is available in Debian. It's in the python-software-properties package: sudo apt-get install python-software-properties It was added to that package in version 0.75. The current version in Debian Stable ('squeeze") is 0.60, so it doesn't have it. The version currently in Debian Testing ("wheezy") is 0.82.7.1debian1, so it's available there.

Full answer by Jim Paris: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/45905 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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