Public bug reported:
I have just installed a fresh Ubuntu 15.10 to my machine and run into
trouble with adding ppa repositories using apt-add-repository:
for e.g. running
apt-add-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa:~git-core/ubuntu/ppa'.
ERROR: '~git-core' user or team does not exist.
After debugging a lot of code, I found the trouble, the used proxy-
server needs authentification but the apt-add-repository does not throw
a correct error message fro this case:
The PPAException raised here seems to be interpreted as not available,
which is rather hard to debug.
def _get_https_content_py3(lp_url):
print("RETRIEVING URL: %s"%lp_url)
try:
request = urllib.request.Request(str(lp_url), headers={"Accept":"
application/json"})
lp_page = urllib.request.urlopen(request, cafile=LAUNCHPAD_PPA_CERT)
json_data = lp_page.read().decode("utf-8", "strict")
print(" RV: %s"%str(json_data))
except (URLError, HTTPException) as e:
# HTTPException doesn't have a reason but might have a string
# representation
print(e)
reason = hasattr(e, "reason") and e.reason or e
raise PPAException("Error reading %s: %s" % (lp_url, reason), e)
The last print(e) gives me the hint what went wrong:
<urlopen error Tunnel connection failed: 407 Proxy Authorization Required>
For the future it would be great to get a correct error message.
** Affects: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
apt-add-repository always returns "user or team does not exist." for
ppa repos
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