I’m running Ubuntu 14.04. When I run: 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

I get the following error:

sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found

I tried to run

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

but it shows:

software-properties-common is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
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3 Answers

For Ubuntu 14.04 or later you need to install the software-properties-common package:

sudo apt install software-properties-common

I found the solution in this blog: Ubuntu Server 14.4 (Trusty Tahr) – add-apt-repository: command not found

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If you are using an older release of Ubuntu, i.e. before 12.10, it is necessary to install the package python-software-properties.

sudo apt install python-software-properties
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Run sudo apt-get update

Then sudo apt install software-properties-common -y

Now, you can use sudo add-apt-repository

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