Repository does not have a Release file

[pthomas]

Hello,

First, freeCAD is great and has come a long way in the last few years, nice work!

Currently with Ubuntu 20.04 after doing a:

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add-apt-repository ppa:freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable

The subsequent

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apt update

reports:

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# apt update
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Ign:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable/ubuntu focal InRelease                                  
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Err:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable/ubuntu focal Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1560:8008::15 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/freecad-maintainers/freecad-stable/ubuntu focal 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.

Is there just something missing for focal?

thanks,
Paul

[PrzemoF]

pthomas, wolcome to the forum and thanks for info!

ping

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Any chance you could take a look at it?

[kkremitzki]

It's just not available at the moment, delayed a bit by me needing to work on a PySide 2 porting problem as a prerequisite, and COVID. I'm pretty close to having things fixed, though. Maybe I'll get it done this weekend but I also need to work on my taxes, we'll see!

[DamianHarty]

I'm very appreciative of all the support. I was about to post the same question.

Given that I have a working version of FreeCAD (0.18.4), I'm not really disadvantaged by not being to update *yet*, right?

[PrzemoF]

It's just not available at the moment, delayed a bit by me needing to work on a PySide 2 porting problem as a prerequisite, and COVID. I'm pretty close to having things fixed, though. Maybe I'll get it done this weekend but I also need to work on my taxes, we'll see!

OK, great! No pressure - I just wanted to know if someone knows about the problem

[s-light]

OK, great! No pressure - I just wanted to know if someone knows about the problem

just to let you know: the daily PPA is working again with focal.

[PrzemoF]

Thanks!

[kkremitzki]

I might be able to get the stable PPA fixed this weekend as well.

[Qixil]

Hi - same issue - I guess it's not available at the moment. Appreciate all the work done.

This is more an FYI and sanity check.

Is there a cleaner way to do this without generating error messages?

[onekk]

Hi - same issue - I guess it's not available at the moment. Appreciate all the work done.

This is more an FYI and sanity check.

Is there a cleaner way to do this without generating error messages?

From what I know FreeCAD PPA is not maintained.

This post is however three years old.

Regards

Carlo D.