Newbi Asked: 2011-11-29 10:10:16 +0800 CST2011-11-29 10:10:16 +0800 CST 2011-11-29 10:10:16 +0800 CST What is the difference between add-apt-repository & apt-add-repository? 772 Difference between add-apt-repository & apt-add-repository ? add-apt-repository 2 Answers Voted Best Answer Jorge Castro 2011-11-29T10:12:01+08:002011-11-29T10:12:01+08:00 They're the same command, someone just added the inverse because people kept mixing the command up and typing it wrong. Caesium 2011-11-29T10:29:58+08:002011-11-29T10:29:58+08:00 An easy way to find this out would have been: minibun:~> ls -l `which apt-add-repository` lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2011-08-26 15:36 /usr/bin/apt-add-repository -> add-apt-repository You can see that apt-add-repository is simply a symlink to add-apt-repository :)
They're the same command, someone just added the inverse because people kept mixing the command up and typing it wrong.
An easy way to find this out would have been:
You can see that
apt-add-repositoryis simply a symlink toadd-apt-repository:)