Lately I've come across instructions to add repositories from the command line using sudo add-app-repository. However, the result was always something along the lines of "command not found." Turns out, this means of adding repos only became available for Ubuntu with 9.10 (Karmic Koala). If you're like me and prefer for one reason or another an earlier version of Ubuntu, there's no need to upgrade. What you need is the python-software-properties_0.75.4_all.deb package. You have an earlier version of it already if you're using Ubuntu.
To upgrade, go to the Ubuntu download page for this package and select a mirror near you. Clicking the link should download the package. Click the downloaded package to install. In the command line do a sudo apt-get update and then proceed to use the add-app-repository command as you originally intended. If your experience is like mine was, it should work fine now.
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