404 Not Found when adding PPA

[seantcanavan]

Describe the bug Attempting to add the guake PPA to Ubuntu 22.04. I have a feeling this is only a temporary outage but I decided to file a bug for two reasons. 1) There's something IPV6 going on with the IP address for the PPA and 2) I've used Ubuntu a long time and never seen this error before.

Repository: 'deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/linuxuprising/guake/ubuntu/ jammy main'
Description:
Latest Guake PPA

PPA release announcement on Linux Uprising: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/05/new-guake-drop-down-terminal-ppa-ubuntu.html
More info: https://launchpad.net/~linuxuprising/+archive/ubuntu/guake
Adding repository.
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel.
Found existing deb entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxuprising-ubuntu-guake-jammy.list
Adding deb entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxuprising-ubuntu-guake-jammy.list
Found existing deb-src entry in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxuprising-ubuntu-guake-jammy.list
Adding disabled deb-src entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linuxuprising-ubuntu-guake-jammy.list
Adding key to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/linuxuprising-ubuntu-guake.gpg with fingerprint 1CC3D16E460A94EE17FE581CEA8CACC073C3DB2A
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                           
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease                                   
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease                                    
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease                                 
Hit:5 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease                                        
Hit:6 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                                       
Ign:7 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/linuxuprising/guake/ubuntu jammy InRelease                   
Hit:8 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable InRelease
Err:9 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/linuxuprising/guake/ubuntu jammy Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 2620:2d:4000:1::3e 443]
Reading package lists... Done                                  
E: The repository 'https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/linuxuprising/guake/ubuntu jammy Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Thu Dec 08 01:09 PM ~: 

Expected behavior

The PPA is added

Actual behavior

The PPA is not added

To Reproduce

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/guake

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Please run $ guake --support, and paste the results here. Don't put backticks (`) around it! The output already contains Markdown formatting. And make sure you run the command OUTSIDE the Guake.

[seantcanavan]

Today I'm now getting:

Ign:8 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/linuxuprising/guake/ubuntu jammy InRelease 
Err:9 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/linuxuprising/guake/ubuntu jammy Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.52 443]
Reading package lists... Done                              
E: The repository 'https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/linuxuprising/guake/ubuntu jammy Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.

[Davidy22]

Been some while, but I can see an entry at https://launchpad.net/~linuxuprising/+archive/ubuntu/guake that still goes to a live page, do you still get this error?

[esmuigors2]

I have the same problem with two other Launchpad repos, ppa:rock-core/qt4 and Eclipse launchpad repository. Websites are available and running but cannot add a PPA. What I found out is that it often means they do not have Your release. Please use: sudo add-apt-repository -S 'deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/rock-core/qt4/ubuntu focal main' Where the address is hopefully posted on the package web page by the developers of the package You are interested of.

[novaTopFlex]

I believe that Guake is now available in the official Ubuntu repository listings, at least with apt-get. And I am not sure but I am probably suspicious of installing the focal version of Guake on a jammy or noble system as the version may be even older than the version listed in the default repositories.

[Davidy22]

I do believe ubuntu freezes Guake so that still justifies the existence of a PPA repo because sometimes people want the new version and that won't be on versions of ubuntu older than the latest version of Guake. The PPA does seem to go back just three versions of ubuntu, so that might be the reason why some people might not see a Guake update on the PPA either, though I also don't use ubuntu so I'm speaking in some part from guesswork.