Script to add any third party repo to ANY machine (aka adding ubuntu repo to kali)

script-to-add-any-ppa.txt

sudo apt-get install python3-software-properties
sudo apt-get install apt-file
sudo apt-file update
gksudo gedit /usr/sbin/add-apt-repository

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#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
NM=`uname -a && date`
NAME=`echo $NM | md5sum | cut -f1 -d" "`
then
ppa_name=`echo "$1" | cut -d":" -f2 -s`
if [ -z "$ppa_name" ]
then
echo "PPA name not found"
echo "Utility to add PPA repositories in your debian machine"
echo "$0 ppa:user/ppa-name"
else
echo "$ppa_name"
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/$ppa_name/ubuntu oneiric main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
#(HERE tried changing the distro name to EVERYTHING I could think of)
apt-get update >> /dev/null 2> /tmp/${NAME}_apt_add_key.txt
key=`cat /tmp/${NAME}_apt_add_key.txt | cut -d":" -f6 | cut -d" " -f3`
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys $key
rm -rf /tmp/${NAME}_apt_add_key.txt
fi
else
echo "Utility to add PPA repositories in your debian machine"
echo "$0 ppa:user/ppa-name"
fi

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cd /usr/sbin
sudo ./add-apt-repository ppa:user/ppa-name