add-apt-repository is broken with non-UTF-8 locales
Linode
Linode Staff
I'm trying to install PHP version 7.4 with NGINX, and I'm getting the following error when trying to add a repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:USER/php
Co-installable PHP versions: PHP 5.6, PHP 7.x and most requested extensions are included. Only Supported Versions of PHP (http://php.net/supported-versions.php) for Supported Ubuntu Releases (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases) are provided. Don't ask for end-of-life PHP versions or Ubuntu release, they won't be provided.
Debian oldstable and stable packages are provided as well: https://deb.sury.org/#debian-dpa
You can get more information about the packages at https://deb.sury.org
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https://deb.sury.org/#bug-reporting
CAVEATS:
If you are using php-gearman, you need to add ppa:USER/pkg-gearman
If you are using apache2, you are advised to add ppa:USER/apache2
If you are using nginx, you are advised to add ppa:USER/nginx-mainline
or ppa:USER/nginx
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WARNING: add-apt-repository is broken with non-UTF-8 locales, see
https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/56 for workaround:
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 add-apt-repository ppa:USER/php
More info: https://launchpad.net/~USER/+archive/ubuntu/php
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 917, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/threading.py", line 865, in run
self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 688, in addkey_func
func(**kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 386, in add_key
return apsk.add_ppa_signing_key()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 252, in add_ppa_signing_key
tmp_keyring, tmp_secret_keyring, signing_key_fingerprint, tmp_keyring_dir):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 181, in _recv_key
"--recv", signing_key_fingerprint,
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 323, in call
with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as p:
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 775, in init
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "/usr/lib/python3.7/subprocess.py", line 1522, in _execute_child
raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gpg': 'gpg'
1 Reply
jdutton
Linode Staff
If you navigate to the github discussion linked in the error message
(https://github.com/oerdnj/deb.sury.org/issues/56), you can see that some other users were able to work around this by installing or upgrading their server's language packages.
I wasn't able to recreate the issue myself, but it looks like the first user was able to take the following steps to do just that:
apt-get update &&
apt-get install -y language-pack-en-base &&
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 &&
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 &&
apt-get install -y software-properties-common &&
add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5-5.6 &&
add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/mariadb-10.0 &&
apt-get update &&
apt-get -y upgrade
Another user was able to simply set their language to UTF-8:
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
Just in case, here's a guide on installing PHP 7.4 on Ubuntu for reference: How To Install PHP 7.4 on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04/16.04