eshneto
August 11th, 2010, 09:07 PM
Hello, I have recently received a new machine and asked to my company's "computing technical service" to install Kubuntu, which they did. They have, however, enabled a backports PPA repository that I did not notice.
Because of that, when updating, the new KDE4.5 was installed, causing all sorts of bug to show up.
Now I have disabled the alien repositories, but I am still not able to correctly install kubuntu-desktop because there are lots of packages from the PPA that conflict with those I am trying to install.
I know that "dpkg --get-selections" lists every package in my system, but it does not show from what repository it came from.
My idea is to do something like
cmd | grep -i ppa
to get a listing of which packages I must remove in order to fix the system, but I do not know how would "cmd" look like.
Any hints?
Thank you in advance,
Elias.
P.S.: I know I should make the technicians do this dirt job, but they say I must wait for a week without my machine and, further, I just do not trust them anymore.
Because of that, when updating, the new KDE4.5 was installed, causing all sorts of bug to show up.
Now I have disabled the alien repositories, but I am still not able to correctly install kubuntu-desktop because there are lots of packages from the PPA that conflict with those I am trying to install.
I know that "dpkg --get-selections" lists every package in my system, but it does not show from what repository it came from.
My idea is to do something like
cmd | grep -i ppa
to get a listing of which packages I must remove in order to fix the system, but I do not know how would "cmd" look like.
Any hints?
Thank you in advance,
Elias.
P.S.: I know I should make the technicians do this dirt job, but they say I must wait for a week without my machine and, further, I just do not trust them anymore.