Ubuntu – How to remove (purge) Opera PPA

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I'm completely as a loss as to how to get rid of all Opera packages.

I have ppa-purge installed, but don't know what to specify for the ppa.. I have tried the following:

sudo ppa-purge deb.opera.com
sudo ppa-purge deb.opera.com/opera
sudo ppa-purge deb.opera.com/opera stable
sudo ppa-purge opera-list
sudo ppa-purge -p http://deb.opera.com/opera stable

..and many other combinations of the above, and all result in something like:

Warning: Could not find package list for PPA: stable http://deb.opera.com/opera/

This seems a lot harder than it could be to just uninstall (and completely remove) an application. Ideally I'd open the software center, remove Opera and then it could ask me 'also remove the repository?' and then it'd be gone.

Best Answer

PPA purge only works if you've installed a PPA (from ppa.launchpad.net). In order to remove it you need to manually remove the line from /etc/apt/sources.list

How to remove a repository?

If a repository is leaving junk around you don't want, you can synaptic Install synaptic and click the Origin button:

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Then click on the filter on the left that shows the repository, then you can select them and remove them from there. If you've already removed the repository the packages might be listed under "Local".

As far as to why Opera isn't in the Software Center, people need to tell them to submit it to the Software Center so people don't have to do this kind of thing by hand.

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I believe that's just a misleading error message. A quick glance at the source reveals that it's printing a space where we'd normally type a slash:

warn "Could not find package list for PPA: $PPAOWNER $PPANAME"

So why couldn't it find the package list?

I believe that part of the message is also misleading. You'll likely find that there are, in fact, valid package lists for the PPA in /var/lib/apt/lists/:

$ ls /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_ubuntu-x-swat_x-updates_*_Packages
/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_ubuntu-x-swat_x-updates_ubuntu_dists_raring_main_binary-amd64_Packages
/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_ubuntu-x-swat_x-updates_ubuntu_dists_raring_main_binary-i386_Packages

The thing that's throwing off ppa-purge is that they're empty:

$ file /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_ubuntu-x-swat_x-updates_*_Packages
/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_ubuntu-x-swat_x-updates_ubuntu_dists_raring_main_binary-amd64_Packages: empty
/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_ubuntu-x-swat_x-updates_ubuntu_dists_raring_main_binary-i386_Packages:  empty

It assumes that a repository will always contain packages, and that assumption doesn't hold true for ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates, which at the moment doesn't have any packages for Raring.

If you'd like to remove the PPA, you should be able to use apt-add-repository to remove it from the software sources.

It would also be courteous to let the developers of ppa-purge know about this exception so they can make it respond more helpfully in the future. You can open a bug report by running ubuntu-bug ppa-purge.

Ubuntu – PPA spring cleaning — list packages installed from a PPA

The following script will give you a list like the following:

PPA:tualatrix/ppa
--->  ubuntu-tweak
PPA:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
--->  gimp
--->  gimp-data
--->  gimp-help-common
--->  gimp-help-en
--->  gimp-help-en-gb
--->  gimp-help-es
--->  gimp-help-it
--->  gimp-plugin-registry
--->  libgimp2.0
--->  libopenjpeg-dev
--->  libopenjpeg5

Script following (copy it to a file and make it executable):

#! /bin/bash
#
list_all_packages_repos() {
apt-cache policy $(dpkg -l | awk 'NR >= 6 { print $2 }') |
  awk '/^[^ ]/    { split($1, a, ":"); pkg = a[1] }
    nextline == 1 { nextline = 0; printf("%-40s %-50s %s\n", pkg, $2, $3) }
    /\*\*\*/      { nextline = 1 }'
    }

list_packages_of() { #1 is the tmpfile, $2 is the ppa regexp
    grep "$2" "$1" | awk '{print "---> ", $1}'
}

# cache all packages files now 

tmpfile=/tmp/list_pcks.$$.txt
list_all_packages_repos > $tmpfile

# listppa Script to get all the PPA installed on a system ready to share for reininstall
for APT in $(find /etc/apt/ -name "*.list"); do
    grep -o "^deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/[a-z0-9\-]\+/[a-z0-9\-]\+" "$APT" | while read ENTRY ; do
        USER=$(echo "$ENTRY" | cut -d/ -f4)
        PPA=$(echo "$ENTRY" | cut -d/ -f5)
        echo  PPA:$USER/$PPA
    list_packages_of "$tmpfile" "$USER/$PPA"
    done
done

rm "$tmpfile"

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