Unable to locate package mesa?

Question

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

then,

sudo apt-get update

Followed by

sudo apt-get install mesa

The last results in:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mesa

What's going on here?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 28 '22 at 06:10

mesa is a source, not a package. Read the ppa page before using or even adding to your sources - https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

In particular -

This PPA is currently meant to be used as a whole. Please do not individually install packages from it, add it to your sources and let your package manager pull in every update

It's also possible that as far as 14.04 the ppa can only be used with an install from 14.04/14.04.1 images. 14.04.2 & 14.04.3 may not be suitable candidates for that ppa.

Unable to locate package mesa?

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