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kerner1000
Asked: 2019-03-16 01:25:27 +0800 CST

ppa-purge by URL

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I installed some PPAs. Now, when I run apt update some of them seem to be gone.

Err:22 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/atom/ubuntu cosmic Release        
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]

Now, I would like to do the following:

sudo ppa-purge http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/atom/ubuntu

But this does not work. I assume ppa-purge only accepts input in the form of ppa:somerepo/path

Is there a way to remove a PPA by its http... URL?

ppa apt 18.10

1 Answers

  1. The PPA you mentioned does not contain files for cosmic (18.10) distro.

    So you can simply remove it from sources.list with:

    sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:webupd8team/atom

    and then check that sudo apt update is successful.

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