add-apt-repository

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add-apt-repository is a python script included in software-properties-common package.

apt-add-repository -y ppa:ansible/ansible

sudo apt-add-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main"

Example execution

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64,arm64,ppc64el] http://mirror.netinch.com/pub/mariadb/repo/10.4/ubuntu bionic main'
Get:1 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease [242 kB]
Hit:2 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:3 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:4 http://mirrors.digitalocean.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Get:5 http://mirror.netinch.com/pub/mariadb/repo/10.4/ubuntu bionic InRelease [6244 B]
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
Get:7 http://mirror.netinch.com/pub/mariadb/repo/10.4/ubuntu bionic/main arm64 Packages [11.3 kB]
Get:8 http://mirror.netinch.com/pub/mariadb/repo/10.4/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages [11.7 kB]
Get:9 http://mirror.netinch.com/pub/mariadb/repo/10.4/ubuntu bionic/main ppc64el Packages [11.3 kB]
Fetched 535 kB in 1s (679 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Related commands

• apt update
• apt-cache search

See also

• APT: wajig, apt-cache, add-apt-repository PPA, apt [ install | remove |purge | show | list | changelog | update | upgrade], do-release-upgrade, apt-mark, apt full-upgrade, sources.list, APT Automatic updates, unattended-upgrade, apt-transport-https, apt-get update, /etc/apt/, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades, apt-file, apt-utils