Failure trying to add ppa

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 09:31:09PM -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> I wanted to try the Unity Desktop Pastie Indicator on Ubuntu 12.04.
> 
> I did sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hel-sheep/pastie.
> 
> It seemed to complete ok.
> 
> You are about to add the following PPA to your system:
> 
>  More info: https://launchpad.net/~hel-sheep/+archive/pastie
> Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
> 
> gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpJ0XyNg/secring.gpg' created
> gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpJ0XyNg/pubring.gpg' created
> gpg: requesting key DE4CA452 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
> gpg: /tmp/tmpJ0XyNg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
> gpg: key DE4CA452: public key "Launchpad fmoc" imported
> gpg: Total number processed: 1
> gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
> OK
> 
> Then I did sudo apt-get update. It failed with this message at the end:
> 
> W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/hel-sheep/pastie/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/source/Sources
> 404  Not Found
> 
> W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/hel-sheep/pastie/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages
> 404  Not Found
> 
> W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/hel-sheep/pastie/ubuntu/dists/precise/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 never had a failure installing a ppa before.  What is the
> proper way to clean it up?

Simply remove the PPA, since it doesn't have any packages for Ubuntu
12.04 (aka 'precise'):

   sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:hel-sheep/pastie
   sudo apt-get update

Marius Gedminas
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