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Author: Michael
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: add-apt-repository
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 <> 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" <> 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 <>
>> 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:* [
>>> mailto: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 <> 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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