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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