Hi!
It seems Launchpad is unreachable for ppa
$ ping ``ppa.launchpad.net
PING ``ppa.launchpad.net`` (185.125.190.80) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ``ppa.launchpadcontent.net`` (185.125.190.80): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=16.4 ms
64 bytes from ``ppa.launchpadcontent.net`` (185.125.190.80): icmp_seq=26 ttl=51 time=16.2 ms
64 bytes from ``ppa.launchpadcontent.net`` (185.125.190.80): icmp_seq=27 ttl=51 time=17.0 ms
^C
— ``ppa.launchpad.net`` ping statistics —
32 packets transmitted, 3 received, 90.625% packet loss, time 31034ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 16.213/16.556/17.042/0.353 ms
What’s the problem, please?
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Hi,
The site is down. There’s nothing you can do about it. You’ll have to wait until it’s fixed on their end.
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If you check https://status.canonical.com/ you will see that they are under attack:
Canonical and Ubuntu Status
Canonical’s web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and we are working to address it. We will provide more information in our official channels as soon as we are able to.
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pluto
May 2, 2026, 8:30am
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If anyone desperately needs to update, there’s a mirror at
But obviously you do your own due diligence. I’d just wait it out. Its not going to break anything. Here’s news of the outage
A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-based operating system.
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