Please check that the PPA name or format is correct

installing ansible on ubuntu os,

on typing the command :

sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:ansible/ansible

it is showing

Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.

how to fix this issue?

Solution 1:

To install Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04 from the terminal without the having to run the sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ansible/ansible command, follow these steps.

1. Open the terminal and type:

   sudo apt-get update  
   sudo apt-get install software-properties-common  
   sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list   
   

2. The last command will open your sources.list file, which specifies the software sources in Ubuntu, for editing in nano text editor. Add the following lines to the end of the sources.list file:

   deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu trusty main 
   deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu trusty main 
   

   Press the keyboard combination Ctrl+O and after that press Enter to save the changes in sources.list. Press the keyboard combination Ctrl+X to exit nano.

3. Pull down Ansible PPA's signing key and add it to your system.

   sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 7BB9C367
   

4. Run these commands to update the list of available software once again and install Ansible.

   sudo apt-get update  
   sudo apt-get install ansible 
   

Alternatively you can install ansible from the default repositories in all currently supported versions of Ubuntu by running the following command.

sudo apt install ansible