That was interesting! I honestly did not think adding the '-y'  would do
anything because it asks you to hit the enter key. But it did work. Thank
you so much!

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:21 AM, Brien Dieterle <briend@gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh is it asking you to confirm adding the ppa and hitting enter is like
> yes?  If so try adding a -y
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/wily/man1/add-apt-repository.1.html
>
> You could add -r to remove them and try again.
> On Mar 26, 2016 9:14 PM, "Michael" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> no.... they all returned the same error. I just didn't include the full
>> print out because it was redundant. When I run the command without the \r
>> they will all run without error after I press the enter. however, because
>> the ppa is already installed it says that nothing has changed.
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Brien Dieterle <briend@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The "do" will execute the command without a /r, but it didn't break the
>>> command either.  It looks like one of your ppa does not support the version
>>> of your Ubuntu.  I bet the rest of them added OK though.  You should see
>>> them when you run
>>> apt-cache policy
>>> On Mar 26, 2016 8:47 PM, "Michael" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was wondering what I should do to enter a carriage return after each
>>>> add-apt and I didn't want to ask so.... I did a search for the information.
>>>> I discovered that to do it I just need to put a '\r'. Cool? I thought
>>>> so.... until I ran the command. After running the command it spat out:
>>>>
>>>> $ for rep in ppa:dhor/myway ppa:hugin/hugin-builds
>>>> ppa:mc3man/trusty-media ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
>>>> ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair; do sudo
>>>> add-apt-repository $rep\r ; done
>>>> [sudo] password for bmike1:
>>>> 'This PPA does not support trusty'
>>>> Cannot add PPA: ''This PPA does not support trusty''.
>>>>
>>>> I'm pretty sure the problem is the \r because it doesn't say that when
>>>> I hit the return key.
>>>> My websearch was fruitless so..... will I just have to press enter
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> DUH! I should have looked at it and figured it out. Thanks for that
>>>>> buddy.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Brien Dieterle <briend@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Put the sudo in front of the add add repo command, or see this
>>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10889072/using-sudo-with-for-loop
>>>>>> On Mar 25, 2016 8:00 PM, "Michael" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> not quite:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sudo for rep in ppa:dhor/myway ppa:hugin/hugin-builds
>>>>>>> ppa:mc3man/trusty-media ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
>>>>>>> ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair; do
>>>>>>> add-apt-repository $rep ; done
>>>>>>> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Rusty Carruth <
>>>>>>> rustycar54@descomp.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 03/25/2016 01:30 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> for rep in <whatever1> <whatever2> < whatever3> ; do
>>>>>>>> add-apt-repository $rep ; done
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There.  A command that will take a list of repos.  And if you did
>>>>>>>> that a lot, make it an alias or a function:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> function addrepos() { for rep in $* ; do add-apt-repository $rep ;
>>>>>>>> done ; }
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Put in bashrc or whatever and there you go, a single command.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *From:* plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org [
>>>>>>>> mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org
>>>>>>>> <plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org>] *On Behalf Of *Michael
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> bummer. thanks for the news!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.com>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> add-apt-repository only takes a single repository at a time.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Brian
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 03/25/2016 06:10 AM, Michael wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> does  'add-apt-repository <whatever>' work like 'apt-get install
>>>>>>>> <whatever>' where you can just list the repositories after one
>>>>>>>> ' add-apt-repository?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 'add-apt-repository
>>>>>>>> <whatever1> <whatever2> <whatever3> <whatever4>'
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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