Ubuntu – Can’t add any PPA’s after reinstalling Ubuntu 13.10

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I can't add any PPA's at all after reinstalling Ubuntu 13.10.

Here is what it says:

michael@MikesKomputer:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:atareao/atareao'.
Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.

This repository is working as far as I know. The problem is that I can't add any new repositories. Even if I can use the Software Center, I can't have my system with the add-apt-repository command broken.

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Long story but this bug was the result of trying to set up a dual boot with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.10.

After doing an install with a format of hard drive it works again.

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In addition to configuring proxies, tell sudo to consider the environment with the flag -E

export http_proxy=http://<proxy>:<port>
export https_proxy=http://<proxy>:<port>
sudo -E apt-add-repository ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-proper

with username and password:

export https_proxy=<username>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>

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Checking the help:

$ add-apt-repository --help
Usage: add-apt-repository <sourceline>
...
Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -m, --massive-debug   Print a lot of debug information to the command line
  -r, --remove          remove repository from sources.list.d directory
  -s, --enable-source   Allow downloading of the source packages from the
                        repository
  -y, --yes             Assume yes to all queries
  -n, --no-update       Do not update package cache after adding
  -u, --update          Update package cache after adding (legacy option)
  -k KEYSERVER, --keyserver=KEYSERVER
                        Legacy option, unused.

So:

sudo add-apt-repository -n ppa:...

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