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Unable to add ppas that contain '-'

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I have searched for this error and it seems I am the only one getting this problem. When I run, for example

    $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager

    Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager'.

    Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.

but when I add ppa's without any special characters, it runs fine. So, I can add webupd8team/gnome3, but when I try adding webupd8team/sublime-text-2, the same error shows. Does anybody know the reason and fix for this? I am using ubuntu 13.10
Thank you in advance.!

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answered 1 Year ago atereress · Accepted Answer

This appears to relate to recent updates to Package "ca-certificates"

http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/saucy/main/proposed/ca-certificates

.. Previously, the script would simply overwrite the first one found in the certdata.txt with the later one since they both have the same CKA_LABEL, resulting in identical filenames

1257265 -- ca-certificates not in sync with newer releases

1014640 -- 12.04/openssl refusing some verisign certified sites

However, this has occurred before: (back on February 10th, 2013)

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2113326&p=12502408#post12502408

Ok I found a fix for this problem and am posting it in case others have the same issue:



Note that

apt-get --reinstall install ca-certificates

and

dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates

by themselves did not fix the issue.



However:

rm -rf /usr/share/ca-certificates

followed by

apt-get --reinstall install ca-certificates