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I like to live life on the dangerous side (or at least when it comes to computers). I'm trying to get the devel distribution working for apt. Is there a better way to enable all components of the distribution other than manually typing all of them by hand?

For example, typing

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ devel all

instead of

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ devel main universe multiverse restricted
AGreatUsernameChoice
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  • Alright, thank you for your feedback! I've edited my question. – AGreatUsernameChoice May 12 '21 at 14:42
  • There is no special keyword like 'all' that would match this. This is unfortunately the way that apt handles the URLs. Each 'component' is listed individually in the endpoint package repository - main, restricted, universe, multiverse all correspond to certain components in the release package. The only way to do this kind of thing would to ake a new system that behaves without component identification, which for Ubuntu is not something likely to happen because it'd require rewriting how apt and dpkg work. – Thomas Ward May 12 '21 at 14:54
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    Does this answer your question? How do I restore the default repositories? – N0rbert May 12 '21 at 16:38

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