04/05/2026
๐ ๏ธ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ฝ โ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ด๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐!
Earlier this week, some of you may have hit a strange error when installing ๐ก๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐
or ๐ฃ๐๐ฃ on a new server in FlashPanel:
ERROR: ppa 'ondrej/nginx' not found (use --login if private)
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ? This wasn't a FlashPanel bug โ it was caused by an outage at ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ผ๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น'๐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฐ๐ต๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฑ infrastructure on May 1, 2026, after a large-scale cyberattack hit several of their services (ppa.launchpad.net, archive.ubuntu.com, the Snap Store, and more). When the Launchpad API went down, the standard Ubuntu tool apt-add-repository could no longer look up the PPA and gave that misleading "not found" message โ even though the PPA itself was perfectly fine.
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ถ๐
๐ฒ๐ฑ: โ
FlashPanel now installs Nginx and PHP with a smart ๐ณ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ: if Launchpad's API is unreachable, we automatically configure the PPA the manual way (direct repository URL + Ondลej Surรฝ's official GPG key). Your installs will keep working even if Canonical has another bad day. โ
We also cleaned up a couple of related rough edges โ leftover source files after a failed retry, and a harmless-but-noisy warning the first time a site's Nginx config is synced.
If you saw this error on a server, just ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป๐๐๐ฎ๐น๐น โ it'll go through cleanly now.
Thanks for your patience! ๐