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I recently tried to add PPA from this website. I did sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-proper from terminal. I get an error saying 

Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-proper'.
Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.

As suggested in other similar questions, I don't have any problem with internet connection because apt-get install is working as expected. This is not even PPA specific problem, I couldn't add other PPAs as well. This question says that I have to format the entire hard drive to solve this. I definitely cannot do that. Is this bug still unsolved?

I added the PPA line using Software Center. When it updates cache, it comes up with an error saying

W:GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net saucy Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY F141B5F0C7122F9B, W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 13.04 _Raring Ringtail_ - Release i386 (20130424)/dists/raring/main/binary-i386/Packages  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
, W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 13.04 _Raring Ringtail_ - Release i386 (20130424)/dists/raring/restricted/binary-i386/Packages  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Output of sudo add-apt-repository ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-proper

Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-proper'.
Please check that the PPA name or format is correct.

How to solve this and what is the cause of this problem?

Thanks in advance.

OS: Ubuntu 13.10

AFTER EDIT: Before the edit, the question had PPA of Ubuntu SDK.After posting this, I realised that Ubuntu SDK is in the repositories of Ubuntu 13.10. Just thought, may be that's why I cannot add PPA. I tried next PPA and I came up with the same series of errors.

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    Ok, run the following sudo add-apt-repository -m ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa, copy all the output and edit your question.
    – Braiam
    Nov 23, 2013 at 15:14
  • Even with the -m flag, I get the same error as posted in question. "Cannot add PPA....".
    – nitishch
    Nov 23, 2013 at 15:46
  • The -m flag is not to fix the error... is to debug the error. Copy and paste the output in your question....
    – Braiam
    Nov 23, 2013 at 15:54
  • Here at the manpage -m is not defined. In 14.04 manpage it stands for massive-debug.
    – sourav c.
    Nov 23, 2013 at 16:22
  • @souravc man add-apt-repository indeed shows -m as printing a lot of debug information to the command line.
    – nitishch
    Nov 23, 2013 at 16:26

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In addition to configuring proxies, tell sudo to consider the environment with the flag -E

export http_proxy=http://<proxy>:<port>
export https_proxy=http://<proxy>:<port>
sudo -E apt-add-repository ppa:canonical-qt5-edgers/qt5-proper

with username and password:

export https_proxy=<username>:<password>@<proxy>:<port>
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  • it worked for me thanks. the proxies were configured but sudo was not using them. and the error message was not helping. great answer!
    – Bastian
    Jul 23, 2014 at 9:04
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try

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ca-certificates

More info at http://www.webupd8.org/2014/03/fix-cannot-add-ppa-please-check-that.html

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    This didn't work
    – nitishch
    Mar 4, 2014 at 15:46

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