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Since I have installed Ubuntu 15.10 I can no longer add ppa to my repository list:

@:~>sudo apt-add-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~git-core/ubuntu/ppa'.
ERROR: '~git-core' user or team does not exist.

Does somebody know what changed in 15.10? Maybe it is an issue with a proxy-server. I am behind a proxy server, but everything else like wget or apt-get is working with my current configuration.

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    This is not a duplicate. The cause of the issue is lack of network connectivity. Solutions may include setting up a proxy server, but they also include not doing that and fixing your network.
    – mikemaccana
    Mar 31, 2017 at 10:38
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    I added a print(e) to the catch block in def _get_https_content_py3 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py to get the actual error
    – gary69
    Feb 18, 2018 at 23:10
  • In my case, it turned out that my ubuntu was disconnected from the internet. After fixing the internet connection issue (restarting fixed it), I was able to run the exact same command successfully.
    – Emad Omar
    Apr 19, 2022 at 12:23

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You need to export environment variable first. Open a terminal and run:

export http_proxy="http://username:password@proxy:port/"
export https_proxy="https://username:password@proxy:port/"

Now add the PPA:

sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa

You will get a prompt:

➜  ~ sudo -E apt-add-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
 The most current stable version of Git for Ubuntu.

For release candidates, go to https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/candidate .
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

Press Enter and you will be able to install from a PPA.

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  • It should be: sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
    – Ankit Shubham
    Jan 20, 2017 at 17:07
  • I had the variables http_proxy and https_proxy already setup (checked with echo $http_proxy but without the username and password. I added the username (my email) and password but still did not work.
    – desmond13
    Jan 4, 2022 at 17:41
  • but what was the problem? what does this do?
    – Gulzar
    Feb 17, 2022 at 8:01
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OP's answer

I found the problem, it was really related to the proxy-server but with a different background. Our server uses authentication which was not set up here. After disabling it, the problem went away. The strange think is the misleading error message. So hopefully this will read somebody in the future with the same problem.

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  • You mean you have to disable the authentication in your proxy server?
    – Wins
    Jan 30, 2019 at 5:06

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