add PPA failed in Docker container

Question

I ran add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa in docker container, but failed with the notice:

Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:ppaname/ppa'.
Please check that the PPA name or format is crrect.

Hower it worked on the host.

After googled a lot，I've tried the followings:

apt-get install python-software-properties
apt-get install software-properties-common
apt-get install --reinstall ca-certificates

and didn't work.

The system on host is ubuntu 14.04,64bit.

The image of container is based on ubuntu 14.04 from DOCKER HUB.

Can anybody help me?

score 19 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 21 '14 at 12:44

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I'm not sure what went wrong with you.

Here's how I got it working:

$ docker run -t -i --rm ubuntu:14.04 /bin/bash

And inside the container
# apt-get update && apt-get install -y software-properties-common
# add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
# apt-get update

answered Oct 21 '14 at 12:44

Fedalto

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I solved this problem. The image of container is based on Debian wheezy, not ubuntu. I made a fool mistake. – zhenxing1114 Nov 04 '14 at 16:02
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In my case `apt-get install -y software-properties-common` solved the problem. – Nick Volynkin Jun 09 '16 at 11:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 02 '17 at 22:54

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Try defining this var before

LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:ppaname/ppa

answered Jan 02 '17 at 22:54

Lu32

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 19 '22 at 21:02

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I had to run an early apt-get update to get my PPA working inside my dockerfile.

    RUN apt-get update
    RUN apt-get install --reinstall ca-certificates
    #...time passes...
    RUN add-apt-repository -y 'ppa:openjdk-r/ppa' && apt-get update

answered Oct 19 '22 at 21:02

patrick

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add PPA failed in Docker container

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