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I have the same errors and same system as described in Apt Update Gives Error for Wireguard, however the solutions given there do not work for me for some reason

bash shell output:

drusakov@ldn-dr:~$ sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:wireguard/wireguard
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~wireguard/ubuntu/wireguard'.
The team named '~wireguard' has no PPA named 'ubuntu/wireguard'
Please choose from the following available PPAs:

drusakov@ldn-dr:~$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Err:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wireguard/wireguard/ubuntu focal InRelease                                                                                                                          
  403  Forbidden [IP: 2001:67c:1560:8008::15 80]
Hit:3 http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk InRelease                                                                                                                                     
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease                                                                                                        
Hit:5 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                                          
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease                  
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease                
Hit:8 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease                    
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/wireguard/wireguard/ubuntu/dists/focal/InRelease  403  Forbidden [IP: 2001:67c:1560:8008::15 80]
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/wireguard/wireguard/ubuntu focal InRelease' is no longer 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.

drusakov@ldn-dr:~$ sudo apt-get install wireguard
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
wireguard is already the newest version (1.0.20200513-1~20.04.2).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.

drusakov@ldn-dr:~$ lsb_release -r
Release:    20.04

drusakov@ldn-dr:~$ uname -a
Linux ldn-dr 5.4.0-52-generic #57-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 15 10:57:00 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

drusakov@ldn-dr:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS \n \l
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  • type in the header: Ubuntu 20.04
    – dmitry777
    Oct 22, 2020 at 15:08
  • Go into your sources and remove the PPA manually.
    – user535733
    Oct 22, 2020 at 15:35

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You need to remove wireguard source list manually.

sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wireguard*
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  • correct directory: /etc/apt/sources.list.d (with 's' in source's'). Thanks it worked! It is so simple if you know what to do : )
    – dmitry777
    Oct 23, 2020 at 14:07
  • Glad that it worked for you. Kindly mark answer as accepted.
    – KK Patel
    Oct 23, 2020 at 16:36

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