On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 11:10:11AM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:04:18 -0400 > Héctor A. Abreu <habre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I am trying to find out why I'm getting an error when trying to add a > > PPA repository in Devuan Jessie, but not getting the same error in > > Debian Jessie. It's just for a program called "Hollywood > > Technodrama". I run the same command for both distros: > > > > ~$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:hollywood/ppa > > > It seems that the software-properties-common package doesn't know about > Devuan yet. As apt-add-repository just adds a new entry to the > sources.list under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, the easiest workaround > would be to copy the newly created item from your Debian Jessie system > to the Devuan system. > > libre Grüße, > > Florian
Thank you for your response, Florian. The entry that apt-add-repository creates in Debian Jessie is /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hollywood-ppa-jessie.list , which content is: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/hollywood/ppa/ubuntu jessie main # deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/hollywood/ppa/ubuntu jessie main Devuan Jessie comes with /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.list and I didn't touch it. I just added the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hollywood-ppa-jessie.list from my Debian Jessie installation. When I run sudo aptitude update in my Devuan Jessie system just like I successfuly did on my Debian Jessie system, the messages I get in the console include the following errors: Err http://ppa.launchpad.net jessie/main i386 Packages 404 Not Found Ign http://us.mirror.devuan.org jessie-updates/non-free Translation-en Descargados 21.8 MB en 41s (526 kB/s) W: Se produjo un fallo al descargar http://ppa.launchpad.net/hollywood/ppa/ubuntu/dists/jessie/main/binary-i386/Packages: 404 Not Found E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. E: No se pudo reconstruir el almacén de paquetes Estado actual: 6 actualizados [+1]. When I visit http://ppa.launchpad.net/hollywood/ppa/ubuntu/dists/ I notice that the "jessie" folder is not included but the other distros are included. I thought that it could explain the "404 Not Found" error that I am getting in Devuan, but I still don't understand why Debian will successfully add the PPA and Devuan won't. If anyone knows another possible workaround or approach I would really appreciate it. I will do further research and will let the list know if I find something that may help others with the same problem. Regards, -- Héctor A. Abreu _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
