Why does add-apt-repository fail to add source repositories?
- by Lorin Hochstein
add-apt-repository throws an error if I try to add a source repository:
This works:
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://dl.ajaxplorer.info/repos/apt squeeze main'
This fails with an error:
sudo add-apt-repository 'deb-src http://dl.ajaxplorer.info/repos/apt squeeze main'
Error: 'deb-src http://dl.ajaxplorer.info/repos/apt squeeze main' invalid
Leaving off the quotes doesn't help:
sudo add-apt-repository deb-src http://dl.ajaxplorer.info/repos/apt squeeze main
Error: need a repository as argument