Ubuntu – list all the ppa repositories added to the system

14.04aptpparepository

How can I list all the ppa repositories added to my system and save it to a .txt file, so that I don't want to spend my time in searching for ppa's for fresh installations and i can just select a ppa line in my .txt file and append to the command sudo add-apt-repository? Also is there any other ways to do this in which i dont want to give the gpg keys manually?

Best Answer

From How can I get a list of all repositories and PPAs from the command line into an install script?

Part of the answer looks to have what you are looking for:

#! /bin/sh 
# listppa Script to get all the PPA installed on a system ready to share for reininstall
for APT in `find /etc/apt/ -name \*.list`; do
    grep -o "^deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/[a-z0-9\-]\+/[a-z0-9\-]\+" $APT | while read ENTRY ; do
        USER=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f4`
        PPA=`echo $ENTRY | cut -d/ -f5`
        echo sudo apt-add-repository ppa:$USER/$PPA
    done
done

Save this as listppa.sh

listppa.sh > installppa.sh

This creates a script that you can backup somewhere, then run to add your PPAs on a fresh install by simply running:

installppa.sh
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