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Alexander Mills
Asked: 2020-04-17 13:23:46 +0800 CST

Error: 'multiverse' invalid + Error: 'universe' invalid

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I have this Dockerfile:

FROM node:11

USER root

WORKDIR /tmp
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get install -y software-properties-common
RUN add-apt-repository multiverse
RUN add-apt-repository universe

I am getting this error:

Error: 'multiverse' invalid
The command '/bin/sh -c add-apt-repository multiverse' returned a non-zero code: 1

How can I get this to work?

apt add-apt-repository

3 Answers

  1. I apparently solved it by doing this:

    RUN sed -i "/^# deb.*multiverse/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list
RUN sed -i "/^# deb.*universe/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list

    Instead of this:

    RUN add-apt-repository multiverse
RUN add-apt-repository universe
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  2. Thank you very much Alexander Mills, I had the same problem and I was able to solve it on my system (Q4OS 3.10.3) with:

    sudo sed -i "/^# deb.*multiverse/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo sed -i "/^# deb.*universe/ s/^# //" /etc/apt/sources.list
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  3. But im still facing this problem?

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