Thanks Matthew for your reply. I got confuse with the error-type I was receiving, so reported it here. Nobody responded, besides this thread was quite old. So I reported the same as new bug: 1462196
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to software-properties in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1012602 Title: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: python-software-properties 0.83 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.4.0-5.11-generic 3.4.0 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.2.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jun 13 11:36:34 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/add-apt-repository InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120606.2) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/add-apt-repository', 'ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa'] SourcePackage: software-properties Title: add-apt-repository crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __main__: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 162, in <module> print _(" More info: %s") % ppa_info["web_link"] UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 3: ordinal not in range(128) UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/1012602/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp