Ubuntu Installation :: Which PPA Is Broken?
Sep 2, 2010
I like PPAs. They're great. I have dozens I use. Sometimes they go down or even get deleted, and then I'm sad. Even worse, I can't figure out a straight forward way to know which one has gone down or been deleted. They all show up in aptitude update's output as [URL].. Packages". For example:
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~$ sudo aptitude update
[snip]...
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-proposed/multiverse Sources
Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid-proposed/universe Sources
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net lucid/main Packages
[Code]...
In a nutshell, this disables each PPA one by one and tries to update. When aptitude update finally succeeds (returns 0 on exit), the name of the broken sources.list file is printed to the screen. This works, but it doesn't seem like I should have to go to these lengths.Is there any way to get aptitude to report more than "one of your many ppa.launchpad.net repo's is bad, see if you can guess which one?"
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Apr 24, 2010
I've been trying to fix this problem for quite a few days now and have done a lot of searching on these forums, Linux Mint Forums and some others Google lead me to and have has some success, but am now stuck.I have posted a thread on this same topic on the Linux Mint Forums, but have had no success (if you want check it out at:URL...Originally I received error messages when trying to update involving certain repositories which couldn't be accessed (because they either didn't exist or had been moved) and I hunted these down and changed or removed them.
I have done much searching, etc. and cannot find any broken packages. I have tried many many different commands which have mostly done nothing.I seem to be in a similar boat to this person: URL...
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W: GPG error: http://archive.canonical.com jaunty Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key <ftpmaster@ubuntu.com>
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
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""selva@selva-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree[code]......
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If I try apt-get install -f I get
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Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
Suggested packages:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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Code:
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_2.7ubuntu21_amd64.deb: subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
[code]...
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Code:
Is there any way to fix this, or is my package managment permanently broken?
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Code:
jf@mainu:~$ k9copy
*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in /build/buildd/k9copy-2.3.6/src/dvdread/ifo_read.c:1088 ***
*** for data[i] + sizeof(ptt_info_t) <= vts_ptt_srpt->last_byte + 1 + 4 ***
*** libdvdread: CHECK_VALUE failed in /build/buildd/k9copy-2.3.6/src/dvdread/ifo_read.c:1088 ***
*** for data[i] + sizeof(ptt_info_t) <= vts_ptt_srpt->last_byte + 1 + 4 ***
[Code]...
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I've found this link about this problem : [url], but it's too complicated for me.
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