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Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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Title:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa: results in IndexError: string
This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.96.13
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software-properties (0.96.13) wily; urgency=medium
* Properly parse a ppa which has a leading slash, something which a lot of
people seem use as an argument to add-apt-repository. (LP: #1426933)
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** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/wily-proposed/software-properties
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The attachment "gracefully handle empty ppa spec" seems to be a patch.
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** Patch added: "gracefully handle empty ppa spec"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1405950/+attachment/4480820/+files/bug-1405950-gracefullyhandle-empty-ppa-spec.patch
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This code went through several major overhauls, so I won't try to fix them all.
As I already stated the last LTS 14.04.3 is already fine.
I provide a patch just for the most recent - currently being
upstream/wily which should ensure the issue doesn't come back once more.
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Interesting, there must be a fix out there somewhere - but so far I find
it rather unclear where it is included.
On Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS with software-properties-common 0.92.37.5 it works in
the requested way:
=> sudo apt-add-repository ppa:
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:'.
Please check that the PPA name
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Importance: Medium => High
** Also affects: hundredpapercuts
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts
Status: New => Confirmed
Thanks for testing. :) I'm marking this confirmed since you were able to
trigger the same problem.
Unrelated, note that 14.10 has now reached end of life, so you probably want to
upgrade to 15.04 when you have the opportunity.
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Status: New =>
On Ubuntu14.10 with latest update I have the same error
# apt-add-repository ppa:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 119, in
shortcut = shortcut_handler(line)
File
"/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line
** Description changed:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa
Error: 'ppa' invalid
Just saying ppa without a user- or ppa name fails gracefully and informs
the user it doesn't work. However, if we add the ':' separator, it
attempts and fails to parse the string:
$ sudo
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