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On Software and Updates under Other Software tab, I want to enable Canonical Partner and Independent, after I clicked the checkbox and input my password, the checkbox stay unchecked no matter how many times I try to click it, why? I'm on Raring.

Nur
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The bug is Ubuntu failing to display an authentication prompt. A potential solution to this is simply to run the software as root:

sudo software-properties-gtk

It's also possible (as @Abdel-Rahman notes) to edit the sources.list file directly. The software-properties-gtk application does just edit that file, commenting or uncommenting the line as needed. Using add-apt-repository will duplicate this line, and have no effect on the authentication bug: it's not actively harmful, but it's not a preferable solution.

Kaia Leahy
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The accepted solution works fine alternatively you can navigate to and edit sources.list file directly from terminal using

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

find the line that says

#deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic partner

remove the comment and save(Ctrl+X), and you're done.

Abdel-Rahman
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Try this. Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) partner"
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main"
sudo apt-get update

Then go back to Software and Updates, and check to see if its OK

Note: in the second command replace raring with your Ubuntu version.

Mitch
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