Nitish Mowall
Nitish Mowall

Reputation: 139

ubuntu apt-add-repository showing error

when i tried this command

  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:jd-team/jdownloader

I am getting this error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apt-add-repository", line 22, in <module>
    sys.stdout.detach(), encoding="UTF-8", line_buffering=True)
AttributeError: 'file' object has no attribute 'detach'

please help me to remove this error.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1414

Answers (1)

Padraic Cunningham
Padraic Cunningham

Reputation: 180540

You are somehow using python2 to run /usr/bin/apt-add-repository, you either need to change the shebang to #! /usr/bin/python3 or you have changed what python3 points to. Running head -n 1 /usr/bin/apt-add-repository will show you what the shebang is currently set to.

Upvotes: 1

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