Let’s face it, we love to test new applications, improve our system and see new things…
However in some occasion, after we’ve updated our system by adding a PPA in our Ubuntu (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:NAME_OF_THE_PPA) you discover that you are not interested in what you’ve just installed, it doesn’t work as expected or simply you want to remove it…
When you install a PPA you don’t only add the software you want to install as normally you’ll have all the required dependencies (that in some cases are in a newer version than the ones installed in your system). Therefore, when uninstalling a software that you’ve got from a PPA, you should care of removing all the extra packages and re-instate the original versions of the ones you had before.
Luckily, you don’t have to do this manually… Thank you ppa-purge!!!!
You can install ppa-purge by simply run in console:
sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
By running it you will be able to see its syntax:
sudo ppa-purge [options] <ppa:ppaowner>[/ppaname]
So, if for example you’ve previously installed a PPA called ppa:username/coolsoftware:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:username/coolsoftware
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