{"id":395,"date":"2013-04-05T00:55:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech.moosaico.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2013-04-05T00:55:53","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T23:55:53","slug":"where-is-my-add-apt-repository-in-ubuntu-server-lts-12-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/05\/where-is-my-add-apt-repository-in-ubuntu-server-lts-12-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is my add-apt-repository in Ubuntu Server LTS 12.04 ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, where is it ?<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"linux\">\r\nbiafra@vm:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rwky\/redis\r\n[sudo] password for biafra: \r\nsudo: add-apt-repository: command not found\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>So, you are using the latest stable and supported LTS server distribution from Ubuntu. And it doesn&#8217;t install the package to simplify the management of <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/\" title=\"Launchpad\" target=\"_blank\">PPA<\/a> repositories (Personal Package Archives). The <i>de facto<\/i> Ubuntu repository for all people.<\/p>\n<p>They even state that in the help text:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_399\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/add-apt-repository.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-399\" src=\"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/add-apt-repository.png\" alt=\"Read about installing\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" class=\"size-full wp-image-399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/add-apt-repository.png 500w, https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/add-apt-repository-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Read about installing&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But don&#8217;t despair! They could already had installed it with one of the upgrades but&#8230; They forgot it. <code>add-apt-repository<\/code> comes with package <code>python-software-properties<\/code><\/p>\n<pre lang=\"linux\">\r\n$ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>And now at last:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"linux\">\r\nbiafra@vm:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rwky\/redis\r\nYou are about to add the following PPA to your system:\r\n Redis is a in memory persistent datastore. This is package kept up\r\nto date with the latest stable version from http:\/\/redis.io it uses\r\nan upstart script instead of an init script which fits nicely with\r\nthe newer ubuntu distributions.\r\n\r\nFor support email admin {at} rwky {dot} net\r\n\r\nFor support in other distributions please contact me at the above\r\naddress and I'll consider other builds if there is demand.\r\n\r\nIf you like this package please consider flattring me\r\nhttp:\/\/flattr.com\/thing\/360264\/Redis-package-for-Ubuntu\r\n\r\nSponsored by @Food_Nation http:\/\/www.food-nation.co.uk\/\r\n More info: https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~rwky\/+archive\/redis\r\nPress [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it\r\n\r\ngpg: keyring `\/tmp\/tmp48ytqX\/secring.gpg' created\r\ngpg: keyring `\/tmp\/tmp48ytqX\/pubring.gpg' created\r\ngpg: requesting key 5862E31D from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com\r\ngpg: \/tmp\/tmp48ytqX\/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created\r\ngpg: key 5862E31D: public key \"Launchpad PPA for Rowan\" imported\r\ngpg: Total number processed: 1\r\ngpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)\r\nOK\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I hope this will help you like it helped me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, where is it ? biafra@vm:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rwky\/redis [sudo] password for biafra: sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found So, you are using the latest stable and supported LTS server distribution from Ubuntu. And it doesn&#8217;t install the package to simplify&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/05\/where-is-my-add-apt-repository-in-ubuntu-server-lts-12-04\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,58],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu","tag-ppa","tag-repository"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcmwlL-6n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejoyofstick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}