Today out of the clear blue I received the following message when I ran my updater under Ubuntu 13.10 laptop. Failed to download repository information
. I see there are a ton of questions regarding this issue but this is not a duplicate because this is just more of an over view that I am looking for. So I did apt-get update
and started seeing a bunch of 404 errors. I am far from a Linux pro, so how do I read these errors and how can I tell if these are important? I can tell you I have never manually modified the source list directly. And if these are dead ppa sources how can I remove and what does the letter mean in the below, almost looks like a drive letter but I dont have a W: drive.
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmcenery/ppa/ubuntu/dists/saucy/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pmcenery/ppa/ubuntu/dists/saucy/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
saucy
13.10 - ppa.launchpad.net/pmcenery/ppa/ubuntu/dists - or any release after 10.10maverick
...