When I am trying to upgrade Mate Ubuntu 16.04, the process stops at command
$ sudo apt-get upgrade
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3/ubuntu/pool/main/f/fontconfig/fontconfig_2.12.6-0ubuntu2~16.04.york0_amd64.deb 403 Forbidden [IP: 185.125.190.52 80]
I looked at "solutions" which point out to following commands,
but they fail with outputs listed below:
$ sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
Ign:36 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3/ubuntu xenial/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons
Err:37 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
403 Forbidden [IP: 185.125.190.52 80]
$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3/ubuntu xenial/main DEP-11
Updating packages lists
W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages 403 Forbidden [IP: 185.125.190.52 80]
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Warning: apt-get update failed for some reason
$ sudo apt-get remove http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3/ubuntu
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3'
I already tried this, but no success sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:launchpad.net/~jonathon
Some suggest that "This question already has answers here:"
"What can I do if a repository/PPA does not have a Release file? (5 answers)"
However none of 5 answers there solve the problems. Indeed:
Answer 1:
Remove the PPA for an older release. For this example:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-3
--- Problem: This does not help. Output of command is:
$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-3
[sudo] password for stan:
Updating packages lists
AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to errors.
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1624268195 KEYEXPIRED 1624268195 KEYEXPIRED 1624268195
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://download.jitsi.org stable/ InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B4D2D216F1FD7806
W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
W: Failed to fetch https://download.jitsi.org/stable/InRelease The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY B4D2D216F1FD7806
W: Failed to fetch https://repo.skype.com/deb/dists/stable/InRelease The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1624268195 KEYEXPIRED 1624268195 KEYEXPIRED 1624268195
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonathonf/ffmpeg-3/ubuntu/dists/xenial/main/binary-amd64/Packages 403 Forbidden [IP: 185.125.190.52 80]
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Warning: apt-get update failed for some reason
stan@ubu:~/ww$
Answer 2
Remove the PPA with the line:
--- Problem: Thank you muru. I already noted in original question, this fails. Output is:
$ sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-3
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~jonathonf/ubuntu/ffmpeg-3'.
The user named '~jonathonf' has no PPA named 'ubuntu/ffmpeg-3'
Please choose from the following available PPAs:
* 'ansible': Ansible
* 'atslang': ATS2 programming language
...
Answer 3
Yes, unchecking some tick boxes for Trusty Media and mc3man under
System Settings > Software and Updates > Other Software
did the trick. ppa-purge didn't work for me.
--- Problem: I don't see Systems Setting in Mate Ubuntu and don't
have such program mc3man to go there and "uncheck".
When trying to install it, it fails:
$ sudo apt install mc3man
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mc3man
Answer 4 and 5
prompt to contact an author or gamble on old package.
That will be not logical. The solution should lie in simple logic, if there is no ppa, then there should be a way to tell Ubuntu that we don't want this ppa.
Looking in repository, "https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf" shows that yes, there is no ffmpeg 3, only ffmpeg 4.
We even did uninstall ffmpeg from this PC, but "upgrade" still asks for ffmpeg.
What can be the solution? Ubuntu model of upgrade is to go
from version to version, therefore it must be irrelevant is 16.04
outdated or not. This question is not about stopped support, but
about legal procedure of upgrade.
Thank you.
