remove xorg-edgers ppa

P. Echols p.echo926 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 3 19:03:05 UTC 2015


Greetings all,

This post has the what at the top and the "why" and background further down.

I am trying to remove / purge the xorg-edgers ppa and revert to supported
repositories.  Using ppa purge gives this:

patton at XPS-8700:~$ sudo ppa-purge xorg-edgers
Updating packages lists
PPA to be removed: xorg-edgers ppa
Warning:  Could not find package list for PPA: xorg-edgers ppa

My searches suggest that this is because the ppa was installed on version
14.04 and I did not remember their stern instruction to use ppa-purge
before the upgrade.  (Note:  I have absolutely no memory of installing the
ppa in the first place, or why.)

What apparently happens now is that the package manager has no record of
anything being installed from the ppa, so there is nothing to "purge."
That is demonstrably wrong because of the issue that got me started in the
first place:

The reason I discovered the problem at all was attemting to install VLC.
Results were this:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 vlc : Depends: libgles1-mesa (>= 7.8.1) but it is not going to be
installed or
                libgles1

and

patton at XPS-8700:~$ apt-cache policy libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa
libgl1-mesa-glx:
  Installed: 10.6.0~git20150528+10.6.ffd133bd-0ubuntu0ricotz~trusty
  Candidate: 10.6.0~git20150528+10.6.ffd133bd-0ubuntu0ricotz~trusty
  Version table:
 *** 10.6.0~git20150528+10.6.ffd133bd-0ubuntu0ricotz~trusty 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     10.3.2-0ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic-updates/main amd64
Packages
     10.3.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
libglapi-mesa:
  Installed: 10.6.0~git20150528+10.6.ffd133bd-0ubuntu0ricotz~trusty
  Candidate: 10.6.0~git20150528+10.6.ffd133bd-0ubuntu0ricotz~trusty
  Version table:
 *** 10.6.0~git20150528+10.6.ffd133bd-0ubuntu0ricotz~trusty 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     10.3.2-0ubuntu0.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic-updates/main amd64
Packages
     10.3.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages

I'd like to get this resolved before upgrading to 15.04.  Does anyone have
thoughts?
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