python add-apt-repository: ImportError: No module named 'apt_pkg'

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ding picture ding · Feb 22, 2017 · Viewed 17.2k times · Source

When I try:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kirillshkrogalev/ffmpeg-next

in Ubuntu, the terminal show this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 11, in <module>
    from softwareproperties.SoftwareProperties import SoftwareProperties, shortcut_handler
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 27, in <module>
    import apt_pkg
ImportError: No module named 'apt_pkg'

I have two version of python, one is 2.7 the other is 3.5 .

How can I install this package on python3.5?

Answer

Yonatan Kiron picture Yonatan Kiron · Aug 9, 2017

I had something quite different than this. Mine failed with

No module named 'softwareproperties'

My solution is:

sudo vim /usr/bin/add-apt-repository
Change package header from `python3` to `python3.4` (or lower)

This may happen when you recently upgraded or added another python3 package.

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