Ubuntu – Unable to add any repository via add-apt

18.04aptrepository

I have same computer, installed from same image as my college, but yet I'm not able to add new repositories to ubuntu. I'm not aware of any relevatn modifications made to the system, and I'd really like to avoid reinstall. Is there any way how to add new apt repositories to 18.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily
LSB codename: 'bionic'.
This codename isn't currently supported.
Please check your LSB information with "lsb_release -a".

mmucha@utu:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release:    18.04
Codename:   bionic

if I add that repository manually, there is missing GPGkey or invalid, but I have no idea how to download GPG for ppa… Details of failing GPG here:
fingerprint-gui in 18.04

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Try adding the PPA manually. Create a file in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory called freecad.list.

Note you can really name the file whatever you like but it needs to be in that directory and it needs to have a .list extension. Put this in the file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily/ubuntu bionic main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-daily/ubuntu bionic main

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I changed Itay's function so that it handles multiple parameters:

add_ppa() {
  for i in "$@"; do
    grep -h "^deb.*$i" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* > /dev/null 2>&1
    if [ $? -ne 0 ]
    then
      echo "Adding ppa:$i"
      sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:$i
    else
      echo "ppa:$i already exists"
    fi
  done
}

To be called like this:

add_ppa webupd8team/atom xorg-edgers/ppa ubuntu-wine/ppa

Ubuntu – Unable to add apt-repository in Ubuntu-18.04

It is WebUpd8 team Atom PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
sudo apt-get update

Mind the ~ in your command.

Ehm, on 2nd reading: are you sure you copy/pasted this correctly?

You list 1 PPA and get an error on another PPA? If true, that seems fishy to me. If so the PPA is probably bugged. Might be an idea to report it on launchpad. Atom is NOT part of that PPA so it should NEVER tell you there is a problem related to the PPA belonging to Atom.

3rd: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 (Alin Andrei WebUpd8 PPA) works for me and does NOT show me an error.

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