Gnome Encfs Manager

Unable to install on Ubuntu Gnome 17.04

Asked by Dan Allen

I'm trying to install Gnome Encfs Manager on Ubuntu Gnome 17.04.

After adding the PPA, sudo apt-get update gives the following error:

W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/gencfsm/ppa/ubuntu zesty Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gencfsm/ppa/ubuntu/dists/zesty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

If I try sudo apt-get install gnome-encfs-manager the following is seen:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gnome-encfs-manager

Is it not possible to install Gnome Encfs Manager on Ubuntu Gnome 17.04?

Thanks.

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Best Matthew Lovibond (ub-matt-hv) said : 		#1

The author of the PPA hasn't created a zesty version of it yet hence the 404 error when you try to apt update.

You can either wait for him to do so or take a bit of a risk and use the yakkety (16.10) packages. I've just done this and it works for me . Since this is a very simple bit of software without many dependencies I wouldn't expect there to be many/any problems but I'm not sure I'd want to make a habit of doing this.

TLDR:

search for "software" in the dash and click on "software and updates"

click on the "other software" tab

select the "gencfsm" line (NB there are two, you want the one with the tick next to it NOT the other one "Source Code" which is disabled) and click the edit button.

change the "distrubution" from "zesty" to "yakkety"

Apt updates when you click OK, after that you can apt install gnome-encfs-manager

If you want to do all the from the terminal then just edit the right file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and apt update manually

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Dan Allen (h-dan) said : 		#2

Thanks Matthew.

Do you have any idea when the version for 17.04 will be created?

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Matthew Lovibond (ub-matt-hv) said : 		#3

None at all I'm afraid.

The author has produced packages for all the other non LTS releases so I'm guessing he will produce one for 17.04 but when is up to him.

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Matthew Lovibond (ub-matt-hv) said : 		#4

actually it looks like he set it up a couple of hours after your last post.

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Dan Allen (h-dan) said : 		#5

Thanks Matthew. All worked ok now.

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Dan Allen (h-dan) said : 		#6

Thanks Matthew Lovibond, that solved my question.