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Ubuntu Cleaner is a tool that makes it easy to clean your ubuntu system.
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Not able to add the ppa in Ubuntu 16.04 #14

Closed rohan-paul closed 5 years ago

rohan-paul commented 5 years ago

After running sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gerardpuig/ppa getting the below

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 98, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 62, in main
    distinfo = lsb_release.get_distro_information(options.upstream)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 386, in get_distro_information
    distinfo = guess_debian_release()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 281, in guess_debian_release
    get_distro_info(distinfo['ID'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 41, in get_distro_info
    RELEASES_ORDER.sort(key=lambda n: float(n[0]))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 41, in <lambda>
    RELEASES_ORDER.sort(key=lambda n: float(n[0]))
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '16.04 LTS'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 98, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 62, in main
    distinfo = lsb_release.get_distro_information(options.upstream)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 386, in get_distro_information
    distinfo = guess_debian_release()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 281, in guess_debian_release
    get_distro_info(distinfo['ID'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 41, in get_distro_info
    RELEASES_ORDER.sort(key=lambda n: float(n[0]))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 41, in <lambda>
    RELEASES_ORDER.sort(key=lambda n: float(n[0]))
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '18.04 LTS'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 98, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 62, in main
    distinfo = lsb_release.get_distro_information(options.upstream)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 386, in get_distro_information
    distinfo = guess_debian_release()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 281, in guess_debian_release
    get_distro_info(distinfo['ID'])
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 41, in get_distro_info
    RELEASES_ORDER.sort(key=lambda n: float(n[0]))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py", line 41, in <lambda>
    RELEASES_ORDER.sort(key=lambda n: float(n[0]))
ValueError: could not convert string to float: '6.06 LTS'
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 More info: https://launchpad.net/~gerardpuig/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
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gerardpuig commented 5 years ago

Hi, this is not an issue of this application per se, you are having an issue with add-apt-repository command. Instead you can always do it manually so for the xenial release create file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gerardpuig-ubuntu-ppa-xenial.list

With content deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gerardpuig/ppa/ubuntu xenial main