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Asked: 2012-05-06 08:50:29 +0800 CST

How do I recover my repos?

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I've messed up with repos. How do I get the default list of repos back? What about the keys I've probably have installed - but would not be used - if I'd roll back to the default repo list?

Edit:

Here's the full story. On updating to Kubuntu 12.04 - virtuoso-t started to give some error (it kubuntu tells me that is crashes on start up). I thought - re-installation would solve the problem. So I made a complete re-installation of nepomuk. I didn't notice - but it has also removed my kde! So on restart I've login to Gnome session. So I get to the Internet, opened a synaptic - and tried to install kubuntu-desktop. But it turns out to be a some dependency problem - nobody were to provide a plasma-desktop libs and so on. So I used the ubuntu repos generator (link is in the answers - I always get there by googling). But it didn't help. Finally I found a machine with Kubuntu 11.10 - I've started an update process - have waited until /etc/apt got updated, took it to my machine - no luck again: dependecy problems. Finally adding:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports 
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/beta

have solved it all.

repository kubuntu 12.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Here's a great site that will give you a listing of the defaults based upon your country and version in use:

    http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/

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  2. A quick and dirty solution, open bash_history file from your home folder, not sure what's equivalent of this file in KDE, and look for the PPAs you added manually using sudo add-apt-repository

    Then, use ppa-purge (install it using sudo apt-get install ppa-purge) to remove all those added PPAs that you've found in your bash_history file. For example, you've added Mozilla Security PPA using

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa

    Than you may use following command to remove the PPA and revert back to version of Firefox available in repositories of Ubuntu (12.04 in your case).

    sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa

    sudo apt-get update

    Note: You'll not see the PPAs added manually from update manager, as bash_history is nothing but a log of all the commands you've executed in terminal since your installation. But you can use it to keep track if things you've performed using terminal (like adding PPAs).

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