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Does a purchase from Ubuntu software center of World of Goo include updates and if so what is causing an unauthorized error message when updating?

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 496 / 2 Years ago, mon, january 17, 2022, 9:42:32

I purchased world of goo from the Ubuntu Software Center about a month back and it works fine. Recently though when I perform a sudo apt-get update I get the following output.

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/world-of-goo/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages  The requested URL returned error: 401

W: Failed to fetch https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/world-of-goo/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages  The requested URL returned error: 401

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

Can someone explain what all this means and what I can do to have it properly updated?

Edit: I ran the following at the bash command line

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list | grep ppa

Which yielded the following output relevant to world of goo:

deb https://private-ppa.launchpad.net/commercial-ppa-uploaders/world-of-goo/ubuntu precise main #Added by software-center; credentials stored in /etc/apt/auth.conf

Edit 2:
I have submitted a bug report to software-center on launchpad and written to the publisher.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1012131

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answered 2 Years ago saucdisr · Accepted Answer

I have received a notification from the developers of software-center-core on launchpad that this is a known bug and that they are in the process of resolving it. The bug manifests itself In many different ways on the server side of Ubuntu software center and the primary thread discussing it can be found at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1008289

Update: As of 22nd June there is still no resolution to this problem.

Update: As of 29th June it appears that there is no solution from Ubuntu Software Center. It seems that there are just too many issues so I am now just going to ask for a refund and look back in a year or two when the store software is more mature.