404 File not found when updating repositories

[marinecomm]

Updated repositories several times and every time I get this error message and it's only for this PPA:

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/hydr0g3n/ppa/u ... kages  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/hydr0g3n/ppa/u ... kages  404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

[sledgehammer_999]

You have the old ones. Use the new ones:
Stable: http://launchpad.net/~hydr0g3n/+archive ... nt-stable/
Unstable: http://launchpad.net/~hydr0g3n/+archive ... ent-trunk/

Important: Purge everything you installed from the old repos. Even libtorrent. Otherwise you might get weird errors when using the new repos. qBittorrent from the new repos uses the system libtorrent.

[marinecomm]

Thank you much. I updated the PPA, reran update and no errors found this time. Thank you.

[linuxdude21]

I believe I running into the same problem or similar, and can't seem to find a fix.  I'm running, Debian 7.2 wheezy and ran the following commands (as root):

add-apt-repository --remove ppa:hydr0g3n/qbittorrent-stable
apt-get update

But during the updated i'm getting:

Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy Release
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main Sources  404  Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main i386 Packages  404  Not Found
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net wheezy/main Translation-en
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/hydr0g3n/qbitt ... urces          404  Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/hydr0g3n/qbitt ... kages  404  Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I'm new the ppa's, and don't know how to add the repository above.
Thanks for your time and support,
Nick

[loki]

Umm, where does it say to use PPA at all for Debian? The PPA is for Ubuntu, naturally you probably would run into problems trying to install from a source for a different OS. Mainly, for one, there is no wheezy under Ubuntu so it's already looking in a place that doesn't exist hence the 404.

I just checked today, 3.1.0 is available in Debian testing/jessie. Update sources.list as you normally would to, at least temporarily, point to testing then update and install for qbittorrent and only its dependencies.

You may also look into apt-pinning or pbuilder as suggested by shiki on this forum;

On Debian there are (at least) two convenient ways of installing stuff.

1) If you want just a newer package, and you do NOT want to apply your own patch, your own configure options, etc.
Use APT-Pinning. It can grab packages and dependencies (only those), from testing/sid/experimental. And it won't mess your system up.

https://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

2) If you want to apply your own patch, or the apt-pinning method does not work for you, you can use `pbuilder`.
It is a tool that will grab all the dependencies, install them into a virtual environment, and create the package.
And nothing will happen on your physical machine (e.g.: It remains untouched), except you will have your package built.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto

You can download Debian source packages with dget.
> su
> $ apt-get install debian-goodies

then you go up to the debian online repository and open a package, such as http://packages.debian.org/sid/qbittorrent
There will be a .dsc file there.
Copy link, and use a terminal:
dget -x -u http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/ma ... .9.8-1.dsc

It will download every patch, debian file, and the source. Even unpack it for you.
After this, give it to pbuilder and you are done.


It may sound complicated but once you learn it, it's real easy. (And well, you use Linux, you should know your OS.)

(***) = The compile consists of basically three basic steps.
0 _optional_) Apply any patches you need, want.
1) ./configure --with-what-you-want --prefix=/usr
(implying you want to put it under /usr... that's the default, though. but if you install it there, it will overwrite your current install!)
2) make
3) sudo make install

(Only the last needs root permissions.)

[linuxdude21]

[quote="loki"]Umm, where does it say to use PPA at all for Debian? The PPA is for Ubuntu, naturally you probably would run into problems trying to install from a source for a different OS. Mainly, for one, there is no wheezy under Ubuntu so it's already looking in a place that doesn't exist hence the 404.[/quote]


hmm, here:  http://www.tecmint.com/install-qbittorr ... -in-linux/

So, you can install latest stable qBittorrent in Debian 7/6, Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.10 and Linux Mint 15/14/13 by adding following PPA to the system.

[Seedthis]

I guess they rushed this article a bit 

qBt official download page only gives two links when you select Debian :

- Package maintainer email
- Debian package website

[loki]

Well, in either case it's a very bad idea to install from an ubuntu PPA for debian. It could be done, maybe, but you risk instability of the system, highly not recommended by debian, and might also cause conflicts on other dependencies. I did manage to do this myself once, it worked for one version then it was hell in a PITA to try updating it because of unresolved dependencies, and ended up just going back to vanilla debian stable builds after tracking down and uninstalling all the newer dependencies that it refused to remove because they were newer versions... and they were incompatible too because they were named or built for ubuntu... yeah, hell.

Much better to install from testing if/when a newer build is available. Or build latest from source yourself.