how to fix "sudo: apt-repository: command not found" in Deepin distro

Question

what I want to achieve is to install Firefox beta channel to update the current version so after running this command

sudo apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next

I got this error

sudo: apt-repository: command not found

I've searched a lot to fix this, I found to fix this is to install

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

which is printing the following

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
python-software-properties is already the newest version (0.96.9debian1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

and I've tried what is mentioned in this thread and nothing worked. I can't find any solution for this.

@arochester nothing solved my issue from the mentioned thread — Mohamed Ibrahim, Oct 30 '17 at 21:37
So, you installed the 'software-properties-common' package and tried the command I gave below? What distro and version are you using, btw? — Time4Tea, Oct 30 '17 at 21:40
@Time4Tea 'software-properties-common' gives me the same error, and 'python-properties-common' is already installed I'm using Deepin 15.4.1 — Mohamed Ibrahim, Oct 30 '17 at 21:42

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 30 '17 at 21:29

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Have you tried:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next

I believe that is the correct command.

answered Oct 30 '17 at 21:29

Time4Tea

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this is causing the same error – Mohamed Ibrahim Oct 30 '17 at 21:32
What do you get if you type: which add-apt-repository ? – Time4Tea Oct 30 '17 at 21:41
nothing .. it runs with no message printed – Mohamed Ibrahim Oct 30 '17 at 21:43
It prints nothing at all? No output or error? Bizarre. What about if you try 'which grep' or 'which cat' (something that should obviously work)? – Time4Tea Oct 30 '17 at 21:48
finally something appeared it prints /bin/grep – Mohamed Ibrahim Oct 30 '17 at 21:50
try 'which add-apt-repository 2>&1' (redirects standard error to standard output, just in case the error message isn't getting printed to the terminal) – Time4Tea Oct 30 '17 at 21:54
Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Mohamed Ibrahim Oct 30 '17 at 21:55
apt install software-properties-common – Nov 02 '17 at 08:15
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@Bahamut I was talking to him in chat and software-properties-common didn't seem to be in his distro's package list. – Time4Tea Nov 02 '17 at 16:16

how to fix "sudo: apt-repository: command not found" in Deepin distro

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