How To Add Apt Repository In Ubuntu

Posted by linuxize on Aug 27, 2019 2:21 PM EDT
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When installing packages using the Ubuntu Software Center or the command line utilities such as `apt` or `apt-get` the packages are downloaded from one or more apt software repositories. An APT repository is a network server or a local directory containing deb packages and metadata files that are readable by the APT tools.

While there are thousands of application available in the default Ubuntu repositories, sometimes you may need to install software from a 3rd party repository.

In this tutorial, we will show you two ways to add apt repository on Ubuntu and Debian systems. The first method is by using the `add-apt-repository` command and the second one is to manually add the repository using a text editor.

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