Remove Bazel distribution URI as a package source

Question

I added Bazel distribution URI as a package source using the following instructions from their website:

$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt stable jdk1.8" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bazel.list
$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt/doc/apt-key.pub.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install bazel
$ sudo apt-get upgrade bazel

Installation went fine, but I keep getting these annoying messages from apt-get whenever I update or install a new package:

N: Ignoring file 'bazel.lis' in directory '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/' as it has an invalid filename extension

So I decided to uninstall bazel and install it through the ubuntu installer, however this did not get rid of the apt-get message since the distribution URI is still in the list although the package is uninstalled.

How can I remove it from the list? From the question How can PPAs be removed? it seems like the following might work, but before doing it I wanted to make sure I'm not removing ppas for other packages.

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:http://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt

Could you let me know if I'm on the right track? Thanks!

Answer 1

It looks like you mistyped the tee command when you originally did it - the filename is wrong. APT is complaining because the files in sources.list.d must have the extension .list and yours has .lis

You can delete the file:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bazel.lis

The errors will go away :)

The add-apt-repository --remove command would work (delete the file for you), if add-apt-repository could match the description ppa:http://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt to a file, but that will not work here, I believe, since the filename is not valid. Rather than using echo and tee, you may want to use add-apt-repository to add ppas, as it will just error out if you make a typo (unless you unluckily type the real name of a ppa that is not the ppa you really want!) rather than giving you a broken file.