[Bug 926548] Re: add-apt-repository fails with gnutls_handshake error

[Glenn Dixon]

MacPaul - your instructions seem to have resolved the issues for me,
with one change...

You stated:

"# remove the HAVE_CURL_GNUTLS=1 in the following file
sudo vim setup.py"

I found one section referring to GNUTLS and OPENSSL - they are if
statements defining macros.

I had to remove two lines referring to GNUTLS here. Until I did that I
got build errors.

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Title:
  add-apt-repository fails with gnutls_handshake error

Status in “pycurl” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “pycurl” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Updated an 11.04 installation to 11.10 and then went to install the
  Cinnamon desktop environment using:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa

  The result was this:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 88, in <module>
      ppa_info = get_ppa_info_from_lp(user, ppa_name)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 80, in get_ppa_info_from_lp
      curl.perform()
  pycurl.error: (35, 'gnutls_handshake() failed: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.')

  It does not appear to be linked to the particular repository, rather
  it appears to be a bug in the add-apt-repository command or the pycurl
  library.  I found one reference to a similar issue here:

  http://code.google.com/p/wfuzz/wiki/PyCurlSSLBug

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