Public bug reported:
Based on a discussion at UDS-Q a simple command is desired to be able to
add/enable "multiverse" and/or "-backports" in the apt repositories on a
system.
Background: Right now, it is trivial to add a PPA to the apt sources
using the apt-add-repository command. For example, I can tell somebody
on IRC/email/blog to run these commands:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:awstools-dev/awstools &&
sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install elbcli
Presto! They have the correct package installed and this works on a
number of different Ubuntu releases.
Unfortunately, it is much more common to point people to the more
popular "multiverse" (and occasionally "-backports") sections of the
standard apt repositories, but it is much more difficult to describe how
to enable these.
For example, to install the ec2-api-tools currently available in
multiverse, I have to provide non-standard and confusing instructions
like:
# Enable "multiverse" in your apt sources using something like
sudo perl -pi -e \
'next if /-backports/; s/^# (deb.* multiverse)$/$1/'
/etc/apt/sources.list
# unless you're on an older version of Ubuntu which has a different
sources.list
# format, in which case you might need to use something like:
sudo perl -pi -e 's%(universe)$%$1 multiverse%' /etc/apt/sources.list
# then
sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install ec2-api-tools
I would much rather be able to simply say something like:
sudo apt-add-source multiverse &&
sudo apt-get update &&
sudo apt-get install ec2-api-tools
(I don't care about the name of the tool. I just want it to be easy to
provide in instructions.)
In addition to "multiverse" it would be nice to support "-backports" and
perhaps "partner".
Ideally, this would be available for all active Ubuntu releases, but
getting it in going forward would be a good start.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: apt 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 3.2.0-23.36-virtual 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-virtual x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 9 21:50:13 2012
Ec2AMI: ami-a29943cb
Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1a
Ec2InstanceType: m1.small
Ec2Kernel: aki-825ea7eb
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ec2-images precise
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Create command to add "multiverse" and "-backports" to apt sources
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