purging a ppa repo

[proggy]

Could someone give me the command to purge this repo -repository ppa:adilson/experimental?
tThe update manager is giving me an error message because of it
thank you.!

[yiannis66]

have alook at this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1592540
u will find the solution

[ubudog]

To remove the PPA, do:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:adilson/experimental

To purge the PPA, do:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

sudo ppa-purge ppa:adilson/experimental

Be sure you know the differences.

Best,
ubudog

[oldos2er]

Could someone give me the command to purge this repo -repository ppa:adilson/experimental?
tThe update manager is giving me an error message because of it
thank you.!

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:adilson/experimental

[proggy]

wWhen




When i open Synaptic i stil gewt thiis error "E: Type 'ain' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/adilson-experimental-precise.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
edit. can't open Synaptic at all and Ubuntu Software Centrer crashes.

[oldos2er]

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/adilson-experimental-precise.list* && sudo apt-get update

[proggy]

Thank you oldos2er that did it! Thanks to all that helped!