7 Levels of PPA Hell

[FelicianoTech]

Hey friends. I was trying to get this installed via PPA and have been hitting multiple blockers.

1. The readme of this project quickgui suggest installing with the following PPA: ppa:flexiondotorg/quickgui When I try it, I get a message telling me that the PPA is not found. add-apt-repository gives a hint that maybe it's private but I don't know if that is relevant here.
2. The quickemu alternate frontends doc mentions quickgui and how to install it. That doc refers to a different PPA to use (I believe an older one): ppa:yannick-mauray/quickgui. That PPA doesn't work for me either. Trying to use it gives me an error about a missing release file and that the repo will be ignored. Basically the error message from this issue: bug: quickgui is not available in the PPA for Ubuntu 24.04 #149
3. This Launchpad page suggests that both quickemu and quickgui can be installed with the quickemu PPA. That is also not the case for me. quickemu installs fine but not this project.

I'm taking this as a personal sign that I should stick to the terminal for now. 😄

As for some details, I am running Ubuntu Asahi 24.04. I can follow up when I get home to see if any of these issues changes when trying with my Ubuntu 24.04 amd64 machine.

[philclifford]

The latest release was made in the quickemu PPA so you should use that one. It was updated to support 24.04 but I suspect your being on Asahi is where the problem lies.

Meanwhile clearly the wiki page needed an update (done) to point to the right PPA (and deb-get needs an update also to repoint the PPA)

Update:
wimpysworld/deb-get#1140 points deb-get to the right PPA
but actually I think the better solution there is to prefer
wimpysworld/deb-get#1141 , which points deb-get at github and avoids PPAs

[flexiondotorg]

Fixed everywhere 🙂