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Is there a way to automatically delete or disable a ppa that does not work anymore?

When I do apt-get update I get a lot of error message regarding some ppas that cant be found.

I have disabled them by hand for now, but is there a way to disable them automatically? Since I have many ppas it is a lot of work to search and disable them by hand.

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You can either comment out the PPAs this way:

# deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner

Or, you can do using Ubuntu Software Sources by selecting all:

Software Sources

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OP want to disable them automatically. This is manual step to disable PPA. – penreturn Oct 9 '12 at 5:15
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Oh okay, my bad. Will update the answer soon. – Praveen Kumar Oct 9 '12 at 5:16
Yes, as already mentioned, I am aware of the manual ways, but with the number of ppas I have this comes unhandy, so I am searching for an automatic way. Thank you anyway. – NobbZ Oct 9 '12 at 6:41
@NobbZ By any chance you wanna do it in a Cron Job? – Praveen Kumar Oct 9 '12 at 7:02
I would prefer to run this "cleanup" by hand, so I can see when ppas went obselet. – NobbZ Oct 9 '12 at 12:05

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