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addrepo - Easiest way to add APT repositories

Posted by UbuntuGeek

addrepo is a simple command line interface for easily adding APT repositories to your sources.list

Install addrepo in Ubuntu

This is very simple process just use the following two commands

sudo wget http://mac4deb.googlepages.com/addrepo -O /usr/bin/addrepo

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/addrepo

Using addrepo

addrepo [repository]

Now you just replace ‘[repository]’ with a repository name

addrepo example

addrepo deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free

It already includes ’sudo,’ so adding sudo before you enter the command is not necessary.

Commands Recap

sudo wget http://mac4deb.googlepages.com/addrepo -O /usr/bin/addrepo

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/addrepo

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