How to delete a software source that's making trouble?

[mlentink]

Won't help with this - ppa's have their own list in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Thx. Had not looked at that. Seems I've got sme relearning to do!

[ubudog]

Wow! I entered this & Terminal went wild, doing a whole bunch of package updates, but ending with the same message:
Processing triggers for menu ...
E: Type 'p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Type 'p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.

What next?

Seems like it might have installed correctly though -- try running:

ppa-purge -h

Do you get ppa-purge's help page?

[wojox]

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list

Copy and paste the contents up here.

[Cheesemill]

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
sudo apt-get update

[mlentink]

That command opens a document with a lot of info about Restricted Extras. I don't want to change that ppa, do I? Nothing in it about x-swap.

Sorry, I was wrong as per Elfy's earleir post...

[BlueAZ]

Try:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

And then retry Elfy's post.

Oh I see -- install ppa purge and THEN run Elfy's command. OK, tried this, & got this:

:~$ sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
:
Updating packages lists
E: Type 'p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Warning: apt-get update failed for some reason
PPA to be removed: ubuntu-x-swat x-updates
comm: file 2 is not in sorted order
Package revert list generated:
libva1/oneiric libva-x11-1/oneiric xserver-xorg-video-savage/oneiric

Disabling ubuntu-x-swat PPA from
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
Updating packages lists
E: Type 'p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Warning: apt-get update failed for some reason
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '1.0.12-2' (Ubuntu:11.10/oneiric [amd64]) for 'libva1'
Selected version '1.0.12-2' (Ubuntu:11.10/oneiric [amd64]) for 'libva-x11-1'
Selected version '1:2.3.2-3ubuntu2' (Ubuntu:11.10/oneiric [amd64]) for 'xserver-xorg-video-savage'
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
screen-resolution-extra dkms
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
libva-x11-1 libva1 xserver-xorg-video-savage
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 downgraded, 0 to remove and 96 not upgraded.
Need to get 129 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libva-x11-1 amd64 1.0.12-2 [16.0 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main libva1 amd64 1.0.12-2 [38.6 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main xserver-xorg-video-savage amd64 1:2.3.2-3ubuntu2 [74.7 kB]
Fetched 129 kB in 2s (61.8 kB/s)
dpkg: warning: downgrading libva-x11-1 from 1.0.15-1~xup1 to 1.0.12-2.
(Reading database ... 235929 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libva-x11-1 1.0.15-1~xup1 (using .../libva-x11-1_1.0.12-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libva-x11-1 ...
dpkg: warning: downgrading libva1 from 1.0.15-1~xup1 to 1.0.12-2.
Preparing to replace libva1 1.0.15-1~xup1 (using .../libva1_1.0.12-2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libva1 ...
dpkg: warning: downgrading xserver-xorg-video-savage from 1:2.3.3-1~oneiric~xup1 to 1:2.3.2-3ubuntu2.
Preparing to replace xserver-xorg-video-savage 1:2.3.3-1~oneiric~xup1 (using .../xserver-xorg-video-savage_1%3a2.3.2-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg-video-savage ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up libva-x11-1 (1.0.12-2) ...
Setting up libva1 (1.0.12-2) ...
Setting up xserver-xorg-video-savage (1:2.3.2-3ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
E: Type 'p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Type 'p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Type 'p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
E: Type 'p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Type 'p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu' is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
E: The list of sources could not be read.
Warning: Something went wrong, packages may not have been reverted

Seems this source is still blocking its own removal...!?

[Elfy]

You have an issue with the list - I'd follow #13 for the moment

You could follow #14 but then I think that the ppa purge will fail as well - and we have no idea what you've done yet

[BlueAZ]

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list

Copy and paste the contents up here.

Got this:
p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu oneiric main

[BlueAZ]

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
sudo apt-get update

Got this:
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list
rm: cannot remove `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-x-swat-x-updates-oneiric.list': No such file or directory

[Elfy]

Got this:
p://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu oneiric main

Run the command again and add htt to the beginning of the line

http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu oneiric main

The save and do

sudo apt-get update

Any errors now?