[DC LoCo] Error Accessing Repos

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:21 AM, Keith Howell <keith.c.howell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/01/2010 01:22 AM, Michael Haney wrote:
> > My update manager keeps getting this error message.
> >
> > W:Failed to fetch
> > http://ppa.launchpad.net/launchpad.net/ferramroberto/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz
> >  404  Not Found
> > , W:Failed to fetch
> > http://ppa.launchpad.net/launchpad.net/ferramroberto/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> >  404  Not Found
> > , W:Failed to fetch
> > http://ppa.launchpad.net/ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz
> >  404  Not Found
> > , W:Failed to fetch
> > http://ppa.launchpad.net/ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
> >  404  Not Found
> > , E:Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or
> > old ones used instead.
> >
> > I haven't changed the main repos that were in place when I installed
> > Xubuntu.  I did add a couple of ppas for Handbrake and FreetuxTV.
> > Anyone know what's going on?
> >
>
> I have not checked all of them, but I think you somehow got the wrong URL's.
>
> The first one should be:
>
>
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto/maverick/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/
>
>
> I went to http://ppa.launchpad.net/ferramroberto and followed the links
> from there to work out what the URL should be.
>
>
> --
> Keith
>
I suggest going into Software Sources and deleting the ferramroberto
entries and instead run
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/maverick
from the terminal. Or you could add it in Software Sources but I trust the
terminal more for this one.

Jeremy Bicha