ERROR : python-software-properties package was unable to be installed ubuntu 18.04

[khanfar]

help i got error when try ./build.sh N210
i got error :

mwk@ubuntu:~/dev$ ./build.sh N210

checking for a supported radio type

- found

checking for a compatible build host

- WARNING : dev-tools is currently only tested on Ubuntu 16.04, YMMV. Please open an issue if you've used it successfully on another version of Ubuntu.

adding additional repo tools

dpkg-query: package 'python-software-properties' is not installed and no information is available
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.

- missing python-software-properties, installing dependency

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package python-software-properties is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
software-properties-common

E: Package 'python-software-properties' has no installation candidate

- ERROR : python-software-properties package was unable to be installed

mwk@ubuntu:~/dev$

[sharad1126]

I think you should just install software-properties-common and upgrade this. Then comment out python-software-properties in build.sh and it should work. But I got an error for libortp9. I am using Ubuntu 20.04!

[ruffm]

I think you should just install software-properties-common and upgrade this. Then comment out python-software-properties in build.sh and it should work. But I got an error for libortp9. I am using Ubuntu 20.04!

Yeah, I kept going down the "upgrade and comment out" route but at some point, it gets kind of ridiculous.