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How To Remove Or Delete PPA In Ubuntu

Last updated February 24,
2013 By ABHISHEK 3
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In
an effort to install various apps in Ubuntu or other Linux
distribution, we often add several PPA.
Most of the times these PPAs are managed by a single developer as
he might have created
a certain app for personal
amusement or as a hobby. Over times these PPAs might not be updated
with latest version of operating system. This might create trouble
when you try updating your OS. You may have other
reasons as well for deleting or removing a PPA from the source
list.

How to remove a PPA:

There are several ways to remove a PPA in Ubuntu. You can do it
from Software Sources list, by removing the source files from the
directory or the simplest way by
using apt.
There are different advantages of all of them. We’ll see all
methods to delete a PPA in detail:

1. Remove a PPA from Software Sources via GUI:

This method is apt for those of you who prefer to use GUI over
command line. While you are using Linux, I highly recommend that
you use command line. But lets see how to remove PPA in graphical
manner.

Step 1:

Go to Unity dash (by pressing the super or Windows key) and search
for Software
Sources:

Step
2:

In the Software Sources, go to Other
Software tab and choose the desire PPA from
the list. Afterwards click on Remove to
remove it:

2. Remove a PPA using APT in terminal:

Mostly, you add a PPA using add-apt. We’ll use same add-apt to
remove a PPA.Use the following command in terminal:

[code]sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:PPA_Name/ppa

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In the above command replace PPA_Name with the desired PPA name. By
this time you might have realized that you need to know the exact
PPA name to use this otherwise straight forward method.

3. Remove a PPA from the source list in terminal:

Alternatively, you can remove the PPA from sources list where these
PPAs are stored. PPAs are store in the form of PPA_Name.list. Use
the following command to see all the PPAs added in your system:

[code]sudo ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d

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Look for your desire PPA here and then remove the PPA using the
following command:

[code]sudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/PPA_Name

.list
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4. Remove a PPA by using ppa-purge in terminal:

You might have noticed that in all the above three methods we only
talked about deleting or removing a PPA. What about the
applications installed using these PPAs? Will they be removed as a
result of removing the PPA? The answer is NO. So this is when PPA
purge comes in picture. It not only removes the PPA but also
uninstalls all the programs installed by the PPA.

Install ppa-purge by using the following command:

[code]sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

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Now use it in following manner to purge the PPA:

[code]sudo ppa-purge ppa-url

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The URL of the PPA can be found in the Software Sources list.

I hope you’ll find at least one good method to delete or remove a
PPA and uninstall the corresponding applications. You may want to
check this post to know how
to add or remove installed programs in Ubuntu.
Cheers

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