** Description changed: 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 + 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)$/$1/' /etc/apt/sources.list - # unless you're on an older version of Ubuntu which has a different sources.list format, - # in which case you might need to use something like: - sudo perl -pi -e 's%(universe)$%$1 multiverse%' /etc/apt/sources.list - # then - sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ec2-api-tools + # Enable "multiverse" in your apt sources using something like + sudo perl -pi -e \ + 'next if /-backports/; s/^# (deb.* multiverse)$/$1/' /etc/apt/sources.list + # unless you're on an older version of Ubuntu which has a different sources.list + # format, in which case you might need to use something like: + sudo perl -pi -e 's%(universe)$%$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 + 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 + TERM=xterm + LANG=en_US.UTF-8 + SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: apt UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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