remove xorg-edgers ppa

[P. Echols]

On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3 October 2015 at 20:03, P. Echols <p.echo926 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> That suggests to me that you still have a trusty repository enabled.
> Have a look in your s/w sources and if you can find it then disable it
> and run
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> Colin
>
>
Thanks Colin,

I tried that.  Results in
"0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded."

I imagine that the system thinks the most recent version is installed.  I
could force reinstall those two libraries, but I'm concerned about breaking
xorg entirely.
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