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What is PPA Purge and how do I use it?

What is PPA Purge and how do I use it?

If you used the PPA to install (not upgrade) a newer version of an application (which is also available from the official Ubuntu repository), using PPA Purge will downgrade the application version to the one available from Ubuntu repositories. Alright! Enough explanation. You might be wondering how to use PPA Purge.

How do I remove a PPA in Ubuntu?

For most cases, add-apt-repository should be enough to add and remove PPAs. The use of ppa-purge can only help in the small cases where you want to actually remove a package and install the official version which is not common since most user add a PPA to have something better than the one that comes with Ubuntu.

What is PPA-purge?

NAME ppa-purge – disables a PPA and reverts to official packages DESCRIPTION This script provides a bash shell script capable of automatically downgrading all packages in a given PPA back to the ubuntu versions. You have to run it using root privileges because of the package manager.

What is the use of PPA-purge in Ubuntu?

The use of ppa-purge can only help in the small cases where you want to actually remove a package and install the official version which is not common since most user add a PPA to have something better than the one that comes with Ubuntu.

How to delete a PPA in Ubuntu?

There are several ways to remove a PPA in Ubuntu. You can do it from Software Sources list, by removing the source files from the directory or the simplest way by using apt. There are different advantages of all of them. We’ll see all methods to delete a PPA in detail:

What is the latest version of Seafile server for Ubuntu?

Ubuntu 20.04: Ubuntu 18.04: Check the latest release of Seafile server before downloading. This article could be outdated at the time of your installation. As of this writing, the current version is 8.0.7 Once the file is downloaded, extract the archive to /srv directory.

What is Seafile and how to use it?

Seafile is written in C and Python programming language and provides similar features like Dropbox, mega.co.nz, and others. In this tutorial, I will show you step-by-step how to install and configure a Seafile server with Nginx web server and the MariaDB database.

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