{"id":2771,"date":"2014-01-06T08:06:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T08:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2014-01-06T08:06:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T08:06:49","slug":"graphical-tool-add-remove-purge-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/01\/graphical-tool-add-remove-purge-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"Add, Remove, Purge Ubuntu PPAs Graphically with Y PPA Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Manage<\/a><\/p>\n

Launchpad PPA, (Personal Packages Archive<\/b>) is a common way to install apps that are not available in Ubuntu default repositories. For beginners, it’s a little complicated to manage the PPAs via the default “Software & Updates”<\/b> utility. So here’s a handy tool called Y PPA Manager.<\/p>\n

Y PPA Manager is a graphical tool developed by Webupd8 Team<\/a>. With it, you can easily add, remove, purge PPAs, list packages and install them.<\/p>\n

\"Y<\/a><\/p>\n

Add a PPA box will do the same thing as below terminal command does:<\/p>\n

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>\n
\"Adding<\/a><\/p>\n
Manage PPAs window lists enabed PPAs. With it you can:<\/p>\n
  • Remove a PPA<\/b> will disable the ppa repository. The installed packages from this ppa are still there.<\/li>\n
  • Purge a PPA<\/b> will disable the ppa as well as downgrade installed packages to default version available in Ubuntu default repositories.<\/li>\n
  • Update package lists<\/b> after adding or removing a ppa repository.<\/li>\n
  • Edit source<\/b> allows you edit the config file with text editor.<\/li>\n
  • Lists packages<\/b> will display available packages in selected ppa.<\/li>\n
    \"Manage<\/a><\/p>\n
    Y PPA Manager also allows to search PPA, install a package with a given name, backup \/restore repositories, and even more.<\/p>\n
    Install Y PPA Manager:<\/h3>\n
    Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, add the webupd8 PPA:<\/p>\n
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team\/y-ppa-manager<\/pre>\n
    Then update and install the tool:<\/p>\n
    sudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install y-ppa-manager<\/pre>\n
    Works on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13\/14\/15\/16.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Launchpad PPA, (Personal Packages Archive) is a common way to install apps that are not available in Ubuntu default repositories. For beginners, it’s a little complicated to manage the PPAs via the default “Software & Updates” utility. So here’s a handy tool called Y PPA Manager. Y PPA Manager is a graphical tool developed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[966],"class_list":["post-2771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-y-ppa-manager"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}