[Novalug] ubuntu problem with repositories

[Keith Howell]

As a general note, do remember that there are two places where a
repository could be listed.

The "file"

	/etc/apt/sources.list

Files in the "directory"

	/etc/apt/sources.list.d/

The reasoning appears to be that the sources.list file is for the core
system only. The sources.list.d directory hold any number of files
ending in '.list' and each one contains an individual repository.

As an example, I create a "virtualbox.list" file which contains the
oracle virtualbox repository.

Hope this helps.

-- 
Keith

On 02/20/2012 05:57 PM, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> 
> around a week ago I attempted to install a video editing program handbrake 
> that is not standard in the ubuntu repositories and followed some 
> instructions to add its repository.
> 
> somewhere along the line i must have mistyped something and as a result I 
> cannot refresh my repository list either with synaptic, or the Ubuntu 
> software center or even with command line apt-get update.
> 
> This is the sort of error I get from sudo apt-get update
> 
> Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main Sources
>    404  Not Found
> Err http://ppa.launchpad.net maverick/main i386 Packages
>    404  Not Found
> W: Failed to fetch 
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/user/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/source/Sources.gz 
> 404  Not Found
> 
> W: Failed to fetch 
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/user/ppa/ubuntu/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 
> 404  Not Found
> 
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old 
> ones used instead.
> 
> I removed handbrake but this has not cured the problem
> 
> before I mess anything else up I thought I would query the list for 
> ideas and help.
> 
> 
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