Skribent: Florian Zieboll Dato: Til: dng Emne: Re: [DNG] Error: could not find a distribution template for
Devuan/jessie
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:04:18 -0400
Héctor A. Abreu <habreu71@???> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am trying to find out why I'm getting an error when trying to add a
> PPA repository in Devuan Jessie, but not getting the same error in
> Debian Jessie. It's just for a program called "Hollywood
> Technodrama". I run the same command for both distros:
>
> ~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hollywood/ppa
It seems that the software-properties-common package doesn't know about
Devuan yet. As apt-add-repository just adds a new entry to the
sources.list under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, the easiest workaround
would be to copy the newly created item from your Debian Jessie system
to the Devuan system.