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x-yuri
Asked: 2014-06-06 03:18:50 +0800 CST

What do I do if launchpad repository doesn't exist anymore?

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Recently, ubuntu told me that it failed to resynchronize the package index files from their sources. Here's the output of apt-get update:

...
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/attente/1218322/ubuntu/dists/saucy/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/attente/1218322/ubuntu/dists/saucy/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I've got little or no experience with launchpad. That said, I figure the repository no longer exists. And if 1218322 is a repository name, then it's a strange one, isn't it? Anyway, probably it got renamed to:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/attente/modifier-only-input-switch/ubuntu

In truth, I don't even remember adding this repository. It's in sources.list.d/attente-1218322-saucy.list. As far as I can tell, I have all the 3 packages installed, but they exist elsewhere (http://ua.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/). So I lean towards getting rid of this repository. And the other one I don't remember adding: sources.list.d/tuxpoldo-btsync-saucy.list, http://ppa.launchpad.net/tuxpoldo/btsync/ubuntu

P.S. Surprisingly, apt-cache policy still lists this repository as one of the options for gnome-settings-daemon as opposed to the other 2 packages:

$ apt-cache policy gnome-settings-daemon
gnome-settings-daemon:
  Installed: 3.8.5-0ubuntu11.2
  Candidate: 3.8.5-0ubuntu11.2
  Version table:
 *** 3.8.5-0ubuntu11.2 0
        500 http://ua.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.8.5-0ubuntu10ppa2 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/attente/1218322/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
     3.8.5-0ubuntu9 0
        500 http://ua.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages

So, what am I to do? But addressing other issues I ran across along the way is appreciated as well.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    If you stick ppa attente/1218322 into Google, you'll end up at one of any number of pages that all seem to have the following notice:

    ***
    The old PPA, ppa:attente/1218322 is superceded by the following one.
    You can remove the old repository using ppa-purge.
    ***

    PPA which should provide some relief for this issue is available at https://launchpad.net/~attente/+archive/modifier-only-input-switch. To install:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:attente/modifier-only-input-switch
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
(log out, log in)

    So to interpret, run:

    sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:attente/1218322

    And if you want the newer version of:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:attente/modifier-only-input-switch
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
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