Why does add-apt-repository fail to add source repositories?

Posted by Lorin Hochstein on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Lorin Hochstein
Published on 2012-07-06T16:18:05Z Indexed on 2012/07/07 3:22 UTC
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add-apt-repository throws an error if I try to add a source repository:

This works:

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://dl.ajaxplorer.info/repos/apt squeeze main'

This fails with an error:

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb-src http://dl.ajaxplorer.info/repos/apt squeeze main'
Error: 'deb-src http://dl.ajaxplorer.info/repos/apt squeeze main' invalid

Leaving off the quotes doesn't help:

sudo add-apt-repository deb-src http://dl.ajaxplorer.info/repos/apt squeeze main
Error: need a repository as argument

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