apt-get update is running but still can't add repo with add-apt-repository in Kali

Question

I was trying to install Grub Customizer, so I entered

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer

The output was

sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found

I then entered (to trying fixing this)

apt-get install python-software-properties

Output:

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

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

I then run (to fix the previous error)

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package software-properties-common

Lastly, I enter

sudo apt-get update

And get:

Reading package lists... Done

I am out of ideas on how to fix this. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

The PPA is intended for Ubuntu and its derivatives, not for Kali. As the Grub Customizer documentation indicates, you should build it from source.

Answer 2

To install grub Customizer run the following command:

apt-get install build-essential cmake libgtkmm-3.0-dev libssl-dev gettext libarchive-dev 
wget https://goo.gl/qQnUhK -O grub-customizer_4.0.6.tar.gz 
tar xfv grub-customi* 
cd grub-customi* 
cmake . && make -j3 
make install