sudo apt-get install software-properties-common what does it put?

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As described in apt-show software-properties-common

This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories. This allows you to easily manage your distributions and independent software vendors.

In practice, this means that it provides some useful scripts for adding and removing PPA:

 $ dpkg -L software-properties-common | grep 'bin/' /usr/bin/add-apt-repository /usr/bin/apt-add-repository

plus DBUS backups to do the same with software and GUI updates.

Without it, you will need to add and remove repositories (for example, PPA) manually by editing /etc/apt/sources.list and / or any support files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d