Output from apt update Question

[Jay Ridgley]

On 10/2/21 11:35 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 07:54:29PM -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>> On 10/1/21 3:14 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 03:03:18PM -0500, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>>>> E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/hplip-isv/ppa/ubuntu focal
>>>> Release' does not have a Release file.
>>>
>>> That PPA hasn't had any activity since Ubuntu 11.04.  It is almost
>>> certainly useless to you, and you should delete it (it's probably
>>> somewhere under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/).
>>
>> I think it was added as part of my update to focal Snaptic shows it as shown
>> above append with: main and there also is an entry just like it appended
>> with; main (Source Code).
> 
> It must have been added a long time before that, and only had some
> previous release name substituted with focal during the upgrade.
> 
> It also must have been failing for years, across multiple upgrades
> (unless you upgraded directly from natty or earlier to focal without
> going through releases in between, which is very much unsupported and
> would probably have required expert intervention).
> 
>> Are you sure that I can delete it?
> 
> Certain.  Look at
> https://launchpad.net/~hplip-isv/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages and it's
> clear - this stuff is all very old and long since superseded by newer
> versions in the official distribution.
> 
DONE

Thanks,
Jay

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