W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ppa/ubuntu yakkety Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ppa/ubuntu/dists/yakkety/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
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2And what are you doing? What command did you run? What did you try to solve it? Obviously you searched Google for the error before coming here, so what did that tell you? Please [edit] your question and explain what you were doing and what you've tried. – terdon Jul 28 '17 at 13:32
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apt has very bad error messages. Has not Release file could also mean you do have a typo in your address or no internet connection at all. You should check if http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ppa/ubuntu displays the files in a browser. – CatMan Jul 28 '17 at 13:33
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- Open
Software & Updates
,Other Software
tab. - find the PPA definition that contains "gnome-terminator"
- select it and click
Edit
- change the
Distribution
field from yakkety to xenial - save the changes
- update the software database when prompted
- problem solved
Source: http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ppa/ubuntu/dists/

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4for me it was 'bionic' and I changed to xenial, fixed the issue, but I don't understand why it doesn't have the bionic dist? – sangress Jan 20 '19 at 15:24
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7@sangress If you look at
http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome-terminator/ppa/ubuntu/dists/
you'll see that there's not a bionic distribution directory for this software. – heynnema Jan 20 '19 at 15:28 -
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2Just test it with Ubuntu 20.04 focal fossa and it worked flawlessly. – Reginaldo Santos Sep 03 '20 at 13:29
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I found out we don't even need to add a PPA in the latest Ubuntu 20.04; just run
sudo apt install terminator
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Thank you so much!! Still belive this kind of thing shouldn't be this hard to solve. – PlayHardgoPro Mar 18 '21 at 20:08