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[Keith McClelland]

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/freefilesync/ffs/ubuntu/dists/vivid/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found

(and the same for i386) occurs when sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freefilesync/ffs is followed by sudo apt-get update

[Sadi Yumuşak (sa-yu)]

Temporary workaround:

1) Create a file named, for example:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/FreeFileSync.list

2) Enter the following line in that file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/freefilesync/ffs/ubuntu trusty main #FreeFileSync

3) And finally enter the usual commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

[Keith McClelland (zismylaptop)]

I did this, but when I tried to install freefilesync I got the following message (note that I am using 15.04, vivid):

freefilesync:
 Depends: libboost-system1.54.0 but it is not installable
 Depends: libboost-thread1.54.0 but it is not installable
 Depends: libwxbase3.0-0 but it is not going to be installed
 Depends: libwxgtk3.0-0 but it is not going to be installed

The problem appears to be that libboost is up to 1.55 now. I determined that these components (at least the system one) are in "us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty/universe" but I don't know how to add that repository.

[Zenju (zenju)]

Pre-compiled portable versions are available for the most recent Ubuntu:

http://www.freefilesync.org/download.php
http://www.freefilesync.org/archive.php