<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 11:47 AM Perry Hutchison via sane-devel <<a href="mailto:sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net">sane-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In attempting to add the sane-release repository, I got a 404 error<br>
and subsequently a "... disabled by default." message. Did I do<br>
something wrong?<br>
<br>
$ sudo add-apt-repository <a href="https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-releaseHit:1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release<br>
Hit:1</a> <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic InRelease<br>
Get:2 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB] <br>
Get:3 <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB] <br>
Ign:4 <a href="https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release</a> bionic InRelease<br>
Err:5 <a href="https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release</a> bionic Release<br>
404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.89.222 443]<br>
Get:6 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB] <br>
Get:7 <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [48.5 kB]<br>
Get:8 <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [60.3 kB]<br>
Get:9 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-updates/main i386 Packages [1,288 kB]<br>
Get:10 <a href="http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-security/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,464 B]<br>
Get:11 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages [2,070 kB]<br>
Get:12 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [294 kB]<br>
Get:13 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-updates/universe amd64 Packages [1,735 kB]<br>
Get:14 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-updates/universe i386 Packages [1,567 kB]<br>
Get:15 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [290 kB]<br>
Get:16 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-updates/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,468 B]<br>
Get:17 <a href="http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu</a> bionic-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [9,288 B]<br>
Reading package lists... Done <br>
E: The repository '<a href="https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~sane-project/+archive/ubuntu/sane-release</a> bionic Release' does not have a Release file.<br>
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.<br>
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.<br>
<br>
$ cat /usr/lib/os-release<br>
NAME="Ubuntu"<br>
VERSION="18.04.5 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"<br>
ID=ubuntu<br>
ID_LIKE=debian<br>
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS"<br>
VERSION_ID="18.04"<br>
HOME_URL="<a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ubuntu.com/</a>"<br>
SUPPORT_URL="<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/</a>"<br>
BUG_REPORT_URL="<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/</a>"<br>
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="<a href="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy</a>"<br>
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic<br>
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I believe that all you need do is the following:</div><div><br></div><div>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sane-project/sane-release</div><div><br></div><div>Before that, I would go into /etc/apt/sources.list.d and remove anything SANE related in there.</div><div>Looks like you have some items in there that are not correct.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ralph<br> </div></div></div>