I’m running Ubuntu 14.04. When I run:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
I get the following error:
sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found
I tried to run
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
but it shows:
software-properties-common is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
3 Answers
For Ubuntu 14.04 or later you need to install the software-properties-common package:
sudo apt install software-properties-common
I found the solution in this blog: Ubuntu Server 14.4 (Trusty Tahr) – add-apt-repository: command not found
If you are using an older release of Ubuntu, i.e. before 12.10, it is necessary to install the package python-software-properties.
sudo apt install python-software-properties
Run sudo apt-get update
Then sudo apt install software-properties-common -y
Now, you can use sudo add-apt-repository