How do I remove a repository from the terminal?

Question

I have a Banshee link that is wrong and I need to remove it, how do I do it from the Terminal? I have the incorrect link, I have the correct one as well.

Answer 1

You would need to locate the specific lines in /etc/apt/sources.list

Open the sources file with some editor while using sudo, such as vim (I personally use nano, but you can use whatever you want):

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Locate the lines which contain the broken link, and remove them. Save the files, then run sudo apt-get update after you save the file and close out the editor. Your sources will be updated to work with the non-broken repositories.

Note that if the lines don't show up in /etc/apt/sources.list then they'll exist in other files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ in which case you'll have to go through the files in that directory and comment out the broken source definition there.

Answer 2

If you need to manage PPAs then this question is for you:

• How can PPAs be removed?