Failure trying to add ppa

[Jim Byrnes]

On 01/02/2013 11:08 PM, Jared Norris wrote:
> On 3 January 2013 13:31, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> 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<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<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<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<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?
>>
>> Thanks,  Jim
>>
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>
> It would appear the issue is that the owner of that PPA has not built that
> package for version 12.04. Therefore it's not finding the right repository
> to check (hence the 404 not found) for the version of Ubuntu you have. So
> you will need to either find someone who has put this program into a
> different PPA for you, find someone with it packaged up into a deb you can
> install or try and do what you can to get the 11.10 version installed. My
> personal preference would be to find a program that does what you need from
> within the already supported sources so you don't continue to have these
> issues into the future. I use PPAs extremely sparingly for this reason,
> there's no "after sales" support in most instances.
>
>
>

That makes sense. I'll have to look at it closer. I was just following 
some instructions on the net.  The problem with not using ppa's is this 
was an indicator for the top panel and most of them seem to be in ppa's.

Thanks,  Jim