I only enabled "main" and "universe" repos, but still proprietary software like "steam" are enabled and shown in the list, how can I remove them?
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I think that you are confused in this sense. First, if you want keep enabled only main and universe repositories, check your /etc/apt/sources.list
to look something like this:
## ## ...comments... ## deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main universe deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security universe main deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring-updates universe main
Then, from terminal, run the following command:
sudo apt-get update
to resynchronize the package index files from their sources.
After all of these are done, if you still have doubts that a certain package is from proprietary sources, you can check with the following command:
apt-cache madison package_name
For example:
$ apt-cache madison firefox firefox | 23.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 | http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security/main amd64 Packages firefox | 23.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main amd64 Packages firefox | 20.0+build1-0ubuntu2 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages $ apt-cache madison wallch wallch | 3.01-0ubuntu2 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe amd64 Packages
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Thanks, seems that software-center doesn't follow apt rules. Sep 8, 2013 at 6:34
If your proprietary software was installed via a .bundle file (such as it is with VMware player - my own current learning nemesis), then it may have an uninstaller command that you have to run (for example vmware-uninstall) ... check in the documentation for the products you installed from the developer's website ... they should have a getting started guide or something that explains how to uninstall it at a command line