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Hoping someone can assist with this as I am for some reason getting this everytime I fire up my Ubuntu box.

I basically performed a "sudo apt-get update" and received the following info:

Err http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main amd64 Packages                        
  404  Not Found
Err http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages                         
  404  Not Found
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en_AU                     
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en                        
Fetched 2,064 kB in 24s (85.8 kB/s)                                            
N: Ignoring file 'extra.list.backup' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

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

I did have cinnamon installed but un-installed. Not sure if I missed something here.

Any help to remove these messages would be much appreciated.

FYI, I am running Unity.

Thanks.

UPDATED

Attempted to run A.B's commands below and received the following issues:

$sudo ppa-purge ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa
Updating packages lists
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-amd64/Packages  404  Not Found

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa/ubuntu/dists/trusty/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Warning:  apt-get update failed for some reason
PPA to be removed: merlwiz79 cinnamon-ppa
Warning:  Could not find package list for PPA: merlwiz79 cinnamon-ppa
tonyf
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  • That PPA is quite ancient and does not support 14.04 - reading this question may help, or if you want to try cinnamon stable builds you could try the ones suggested here (ppa:tsvetko.tsvetkov/cinnamon for 12.04 & 14.04, ppa:lestcape/cinnamon for 14.04 only). – Wilf Jun 07 '15 at 11:04

2 Answers2

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  1. Remove the PPA ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa, as it doesn't contain any Trusty packages:

    sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/merlwiz79-ubuntu-cinnamon-ppa-*.list

    The removal via ppa-purge doesn't work in this case, because there are no Trusty packages

  2. Remove the file extra.list.backup:

    sudo rm extra.list.backup

  3. Remove the entries http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty main:

    • Open the file /etc/apt/sources.list

      sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

    • Search and remove the line deb http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty main

  4. Upgrade your system:

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Fabby
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I just had the same problem and the solution is straightforward:
Just remove the offending ppas. They are found either in /etc/apt/sources.list as lines or in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ as files.

Now the message will no longer occur on apt-get update ^^

Consider, though, that any packages depending on the just removed ppa (without alternative sources) will get no updates any more...

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