How to remove or delete a PPA in Ubuntu

By Thomas Taylor | March 05, 2023 | 1 minutes

PPAs (Personal Package Archive) are third-party collections of packages built and maintained by users.

How to list PPAs installed on the system

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ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
neovim-ppa-unstable-jammy.list

The recommended way to remove a PPA is to use the apt-add-repository command with the --remove (or -r) option.

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sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:PPA_REPOSITORY/PPA

Example:

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sudo apt-add-repository -r ppa:neovim-ppa/unstable