Add to sources.list with a command? (not a redirect or text editor)

Question

I'm using Debian stable (squeeze) and found this command add-apt-repository but it's not found when I try use it.

I'm sure I've used a command before which added a repo but I can't remember what it was.

Answer 1

You can find the command apt-add-repository in Debian as well as Ubuntu. That command, or rather executable, is as the previous poster mentioned, in the python-software-properties package.

If you want to use the command on Debian, simply install the python-software-properties package this way;

 $ sudo apt-get update
 $ sudo apt-get install python-software-properties 

Then you'll be able to call the command this way;

$ add-apt-repository [OPTIONS] REPOSITORY

Answer 2

This command is contained in package python-software-properties.

Maybe you used this command in ubuntu (it's preinstalled in ubuntu karmic)?