Failure trying to add ppa

[Jim Byrnes]

On 01/03/2013 07:28 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

Thanks Marius.

Regards,  Jim