Unable to update with "apt-get" getting "429 too many requests" error

Question

I am installing update by sudo apt-get update but getting the following error:

Err:8 https://packagecloud.io/shiftkey/desktop/any any InRelease
  429  Too Many Requests [IP: 54.215.161.51 443]
Reading package lists... Done
W: Failed to fetch https://packagecloud.io/shiftkey/desktop/any/dists/any/InRelease  429  Too Many Requests [IP: 54.215.161.51 443]
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Solution 1

I just solved this problem with these steps:

1. Open the terminal.

2. Start your file manager with sudo, in my case it's nautilus:

   sudo nautilus
   

3. Navigate to /etc/apt/sources.list.d.

4. Delete the files packagecloud-shiftky-desktop.list and packagecloud-shiftky-desktop.list.save

Now it will not appear when you run sudo apt update.

Solution 2

if you run into the issue use the manual option that is download the release here https://github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases. The cause of the error is that the url https://packagecloud.io/shiftkey/desktop/any/dists/any/InRelease has exceeded its allocated monthly bandwidth limit thats why its throwing a 429.