KDE Neon repo is down

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I can’t install updates on KDE Neon

root@tardis:~# pkcon refresh
Refreshing cache [=========================]
Waiting for authentication [=========================]
Loading cache [=========================]
Downloading update information [=========================]
Running [=========================]
Finished [=========================]
Fatal error: E: The repository ‘http://archive.neon.kde.org noble Release’ does not have a Release file.
W: Updating from such a repository can’t be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
W: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

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The url for the source is wrong.

Your /etc/apt/source.list.d/neon.sources file should look like this:

X-Repolib-Name: KDE neon noble user
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://archive.neon.kde.org/user
Suites: noble
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/neon-archive-keyring.asc

Note that your url is missing /user at the end

http://archive.neon.kde.org/user

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Btw. I did an installation at 25.01.2025 with an ISO generated that day.

That has the same source as repo without the /user part.

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I dunno. You should be seeing errors, because the Release file apt is looking for won’t exist using that as the path.

My current PC, installed on 10 October 24 and my laptop installed with the current ISO (neon-user-20250202-0745) have the identical url in /etc/apt/sources.lost.d/neon.sources. Which is the correct url for the apt repo for User Edition.

Using the url that is one level higher (leaving off the ‘/user’) is why apt is complaining that it can’t find a release file. There is no http://archive.neon.kde.org/dists/noble/Release– this is not a valid path on the server.

The correct url does have the Release file in the expected and valid path: /user/dists/noble/

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Sure…I’m not pointing to the seen errors. I’m just pointing towards that this wrong link comes from the actual installation-iso.

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Not the current ISO, or the previous one from 30-1-2025.

If it were a normal occurrence, there would be many reports across numerous venues and bugzilla, which I am not seeing.

An odd bug, for sure.

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Yes I found on another post the info about the /user being missing. Adding that did fix my issue. Yes, it’s weird that it stopped working all of a sudden when it was working before…from the install that I made about a month or two ago. Thanks again for getting back to me.