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Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/morphis/anbox-support/ubuntu/dists/focal/InRelease 403 Forbidden

Lenny4

3/21/24, 3:06 PM

This is not a duplicate of How can I fix a 404 Error when using a PPA or updating my package lists?

When I run sudo apt update I got error:

Hit:1 https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease
...
Hit:15 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/20.04/prod focal InRelease
Err:16 http://ppa.launchpad.net/morphis/anbox-support/ubuntu focal InRelease
  403  Forbidden [IP: 185.125.190.52 80]
Hit:17 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu focal InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/morphis/anbox-support/ubuntu/dists/focal/InRelease  403  Forbidden [IP: 185.125.190.52 80]
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/morphis/anbox-support/ubuntu focal InRelease' is not signed.
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.

I got a 403 Forbidden.

I found this How can I fix a 403 Forbidden Error when using a PPA or updating my package lists? which I tried

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:morphis/anbox-support

But I got this error:

Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~morphis/ubuntu/anbox-support'.
The user named '~morphis' has no PPA named 'ubuntu/anbox-support'
Please choose from the following available PPAs:
 * 'ffmpeg':  FFMpeg backport
 * 'intel-media':  Intel Media Driver Backport
 * 'mesa':  Mesa patches
 * 'scrcpy':  scrcpy
 * 'staging':  Package staging area
 * 'touch-staging':  Touch Staging

How can I fix this ?

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Rishon JR

3/21/24, 3:29 PM

It could be that the PPA could be incompatible with your Ubuntu Release. What is the Ubuntu release?

user535733

3/21/24, 3:54 PM

`The user named '~morphis' has no PPA named 'ubuntu/anbox-support'` seems clear. What leads you to believe that such a PPA exists?

popey

3/21/24, 4:05 PM

Anbox is abandoned, that's why there's nothing in the PPA.

Lenny4

3/21/24, 5:45 PM

@Rishon_JR my ubuntu release is `20.04`

Lenny4

3/21/24, 5:47 PM

@user535733 when I execute `sudo apt update` you can see in log that `apt` try to reach `http://ppa.launchpad.net/morphis/anbox-support/ubuntu` which is forbidden now. But it used to work. How can I fix that so I can execute `sudo apt update` without having an error ?

Lenny4

3/21/24, 5:48 PM

@popey I anderstand that but how can I fix that so I can `sudo apt update` without having an error ?

user535733

3/21/24, 5:54 PM

You must delete the apt source that no longer exists.

Lenny4

3/21/24, 5:56 PM

@user535733 I tried to do it with `sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:morphis/anbox-suppor` but I got an error

popey

3/21/24, 6:05 PM

There's probably a file called `morphis-ppa.list` or similar in `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/` which you can just remove, and then `apt update` and all will be good again.

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user535733

3/21/24, 6:07 PM

It's right there in your output:

The user named '~morphis' has no PPA named 'ubuntu/anbox-support'

You are getting a 403 error instead of a 404 error merely due to the Launchpad server settings.

You fix both 403 and 404 problems exactly the same way: By deleting the non-existent apt source.

How to do so is thoroughly explained at How can I fix a 404 Error when using a PPA or updating my package lists?

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Lenny4

3/21/24, 6:06 PM

As sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:morphis/anbox-support didn't work I listed all sources with ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list.d:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 21 10:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 21 14:00 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  112 Mar 21 10:57 docker.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  112 Mar 21 10:57 docker.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  189 Mar 21 10:57 google-chrome.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  189 Mar 21 10:57 google-chrome.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  142 Mar 21 10:57 graphics-drivers-ubuntu-ppa-focal.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  142 Mar 21 10:57 graphics-drivers-ubuntu-ppa-focal.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  144 Mar 21 10:57 morphis-ubuntu-anbox-support-focal.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  144 Mar 21 10:57 morphis-ubuntu-anbox-support-focal.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   89 Mar 21 10:57 mssql-release.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   89 Mar 21 10:57 mssql-release.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  122 Mar 21 10:57 ondrej-ubuntu-php-focal.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  122 Mar 21 10:57 ondrej-ubuntu-php-focal.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   50 Mar 21 10:57 symfony-cli.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   50 Mar 21 10:57 symfony-cli.list.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1255 Mar 21 10:57 teamviewer.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1255 Mar 21 10:57 teamviewer.list.save

and I manually deleted morphis-ubuntu-anbox-support-focal.list and morphis-ubuntu-anbox-support-focal.list.save:

sudo rm morphis-ubuntu-anbox-support-focal.list
sudo rm morphis-ubuntu-anbox-support-focal.list.save

Now everything works fine

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