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I was following an old tutorial and did an apt-get installed a repository (I think that's what it was) I am no ubuntu guru. Turns out that repo no longer exists, and when I now do an apt-get update I get this:

W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/colingille/freshlight/ubuntu/dists/wily/main/binary-i386/Packages  404  Not Found

I tried the usual 

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf

but no luck. Where is the list that stores all the repos that i added myself? How do I get rid of this?

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  • That PPA doesn't support 15.10 (or anything newer than 13.10, for that matter). Remove it.
    – muru
    Feb 3, 2016 at 7:32

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The command to remove an apt repository is apt-add-repository with the -r option which will remove instead of add the repository. So in your case, the full command would be:

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:colingille/freshlight

The other option is to look in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and remove it from there.

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  • "The other option is to look in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and remove it from there." How exactly?
    – Pedro A
    Mar 10, 2023 at 3:14
  • /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ , this one worked for me, Pedro A, open a terminal, then * $ cd /etc/apt/sources.list * then * $ ls * then it will show list of folders, them remove the one you want * $ sudo rm repository.file *
    – Vince Banzon
    Mar 27, 2023 at 16:40

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