I am performing an update and its failing on the following:
The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/izx/askubuntu/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file..
Running a local Ubuntu server 16.04
I am performing an update and its failing on the following:
The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/izx/askubuntu/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file..
Running a local Ubuntu server 16.04
The PPA has no packages for the version of Ubuntu (16.04) you are running and so no Release file. The Release file is used to check the integrity of packages from a source, so APT treats this as a security issue and refuses to fetch anything.
Possible causes of having a broken PPA:
The best way to remove a PPA you have installed packages from is with ppa-purge
which also removes any associated packages and attempts to return them to default versions
sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:izx/askubuntu/ubuntu
But if you don't have any packages from the PPA (as in this case), you can simply use the add-apt-repository
command with the -r
remove flag:
sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:izx/askubuntu/ubuntu
Or just delete the file for it in /etc/apt/sources.list.d