add-apt : No command found No installation candidate for supporting files

[anandvsingh]

The add-apt-repository function is not working

add-apt
bash: add-apt: command not found

I read the kali forum and it said to run the following commands in the given link

https://forums.kali.org/archive/index.php/t-292.html

it does not work

Many ubuntu forums said to install common-software-properties or python-software-properties or python3-software-properties

apt-get install python-software-properties
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package python-software-properties is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'python-software-properties' has no installation candidate

apt-get install python3-software-properties
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python3-software-properties

apt-get install common-software-properties
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package common-software-properties
root@root:~# apt-get install software-common-properties
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locroot@root:~# sudo apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
root@root:~# 
ate package software-common-properties

As you can see nothing is working.

On further research I was told to simply update repositories and then try reinstalling but apt-get update didn't work

root@root:~# sudo apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
root@root:~#

I am using kali rolling.

I have used linux for a few months but I have only recently started using kali so please keep the solution as detailed as possible.

[sickn3ss]

Not entirely sure what you want to do, but seems like you have the wrong source file based on your apt-get update command.

root@kali:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://archive-3.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease [24.6 kB]
Get:2 http://archive-3.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/main i386 Packages [13.6 MB]
Get:3 http://archive-3.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/non-free i386 Packages [130 kB]                                                                      
Get:4 http://archive-3.kali.org/kali kali-rolling/contrib i386 Packages [87.6 kB]                                                                      
Fetched 13.8 MB in 29s (462 kB/s)                                                                                                                      
Reading package lists... Done
root@kali:~# apt-cache search python | grep properties
python-ironic-inspector - discovering hardware properties for OpenStack Ironic - Python 2.7
python-jpylyzer - JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1) validator and properties extractor
python-jpylyzer-doc - JP2 (JPEG 2000 Part 1) validator and properties extractor - doc
python-pyjavaproperties - Python implementation of java.util.Properties
python3-software-properties - manage the repositories that you install software from

[kcdtv]

I had never heard about "add-apt" until today.
It seems that it is a command to add ppa repositories.
But before adding any ppa repositories... You "may" want to enable kali rolling repositories :
http://docs.kali.org/general-use/kal...t-repositories
Like this you will be able to use apt-get repositories and you will know how to add ppa repositories without using add-apt.