Cannot add PPA deadsnakes to ubuntu 18.04 behind company proxy

Eliseo Di Folco

2/27/24, 3:00 PM

When I try to add ppa repository to Ubuntu within my company network

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa

I get

Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~deadsnakes/ubuntu/ppa'.
ERROR: '~deadsnakes' user or team does not exist

the same command works outside the company network so I suppose it is a matter of proxy settings. For apt get I set up a config file with

Acquire {
  HTTP::proxy "http://123.456.789.10:81/";
  HTTPS::proxy "http://123.456.789.10:81/";
}

and with that all the sudo apt install work also within the company network.

Following https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75557686/cannot-add-ppa-deadsnakes-to-ubuntu-18-04-behind-company-proxy I tried: sudo apt-get install --reinstall ca-certificates set up an environment variable with export HTTPS_PROXY=http://@123.456.789.10:81 then run sudo -E add-apt-repository ppa:ppaname/ppa but I get the same error

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popey

2/27/24, 5:32 PM

Alternatively just put the following two lines in a file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ such as /etc/apt/sources.list.d/deadsnakes.list

deb https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu bionic main 
deb-src https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu bionic main

Then add the gpg key.

apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys F23C5A6CF475977595C89F51BA6932366A755776

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Eliseo Di Folco

2/28/24, 1:21 PM

apt-key adv ... returns gpg: keyserver receive failed: No data

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