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title: "Sudo Add-apt-repository | Karmic Kool"
description: "The Changelog of Karmic read so : software-properties (0.75) karmic; urgency=low new helper script ’add-apt-repository’."
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# Sudo Add-apt-repository | Karmic Kool

> The Changelog of Karmic read so : software-properties (0.75) karmic; urgency=low new helper script ’add-apt-repository’.

The Changelog of Karmic read so :

` software-properties (0.75) karmic; urgency=low`

  * new helper script "add-apt-repository" that can be used to enable a repository from the commandline. Useful for e.g. 'add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-desktop'
  * fix error in auto-upgrade settings when dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades was used (LP: #387704)
  * po/zh_TW.po: 
    * updated, thanks to Roy Chan (LP: #365040)
  * softwareproperties/kde/SoftwarePropertiesKDE.py: 
    * do not error on cancel (LP: #364288)
    * use the SUDO_USER home instead of /root (if available) (LP: #364197)
    * add utf8() function and replace the custom converts to it (hopefully fixes LP: #362188)
    * disable "Find best server" for now, the threading crashing KDE
  * softwareproperties/gtk/DialogCacheOutdated.py: 
    * fix incorrect wait on synaptic (LP: #357617, LP: #349639)
  * softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py: 
    * check/ensure apt daily cron job is executable (LP: #390319)

\-- Michael Vogt  Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:54:38 +0200 

A sweet helper script to add repo to /etc/apt/source.list along with gpg key import.

What we were doing in the earlier versions : {As an Example}

```bash
Step 1: On the PPA's overview page you'll see the PPA's OpenPGP key id. It'll look something like this: 1024/12345678. Copy it, or make a note of, the portion after the slash, e.g: 12345678.
```

Step 2: Open your terminal and enter:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 12345678

Replace 12345678 with the key id you copied in step 1.

Step 3: Finally, tell Ubuntu to re-load the details of each software archive it knows about:

sudo apt-get update 

Now in karmic with the new helper script :

``

add-apt-repository ppa:ppa_name

That's it this adds the ppa to source.list and also imports the keys.