Re: Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 1:27 PM, Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital) wrote: > So, what is the best practice to get the latest (or at least newer) version > of git? Compile from source? I want to use some of the `git bisect` > features that were introduced in 2.7. > git 1:2.9.3-1 exists in testing and

Re: Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-07 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:46:08AM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 12:26:46AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >ask the Universal Debian Database whether it's known to be impossible to > > >do so. > > > > Ok, I'll bite. What is "the Universa

Re: Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-07 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 12:26:46AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >ask the Universal Debian Database whether it's known to be impossible to > >do so. > > Ok, I'll bite. What is "the Universal Debian Database?" I find it hard to beleive mys

Re: Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote: ask the Universal Debian Database whether it's known to be impossible to do so. Ok, I'll bite. What is "the Universal Debian Database?" -- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain informat

Re: Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 05:27:49PM +, Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital) wrote: > So, what is the best practice to get the latest (or at least newer) version > of git? Compile from source? I want to use some of the `git bisect` > features that were introduced in 2.7. I don't know about git specific

RE: Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-06 Thread Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital)
So, what is the best practice to get the latest (or at least newer) version of git? Compile from source? I want to use some of the `git bisect` features that were introduced in 2.7. ...Stephen -Original Message- From: Sven Hartge [mailto:s...@svenhartge.de] "Rasku, Stephen (GE Digit

Re: Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-05 Thread Sven Hartge
"Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital)" wrote: > When I try and add-apt-repository, I get the following: > $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa Don't add Ubuntu-PPAs to a Debian system. It will not work and it may destroy your installation. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Cannot apt-add repository

2016-10-05 Thread Rasku, Stephen (GE Digital)
When I try and add-apt-repository, I get the following: $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa [sudo] password for srasku: Sorry, try again. [sudo] password for srasku: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 11, in from softwareproperties.SoftwareP