Failure trying to add ppa

[JD]

On 01/02/2013 10:08 PM, Jared Norris wrote:
>
> On 3 January 2013 13:31, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net 
> <mailto: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/%7Ehel-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
>     <http://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?
>
>     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.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Jared Norris
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
>
>
I have the exact same issue with launchpad. The owner of the ppa has no 
repository for the quantal dist.