How to remove package

[joneall]

I need a second media player, as vlc only allows one copy at a time. So I tried installing Miro, but it is not supported any more, as mentioned elsewhere in these forums. So I get this error:

$ sudo apt-get update
...
Err:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/pcf/miro-releases/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
404 Not Found

...
W: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/pcf/miro-releases/ubuntu xenial Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/pcf/miro-re...amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

I cannot figure out how to delete the package now, I suppose because of the lack of a manifest.

dpkg -l shows now mention of the package and I cannot figure out the correct name to use for removing it.
$ sudo apt-get --purge remove ppacf/miro-releases
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ppacf

I have no idea what Neon provides for a package manager. The only thing I can find is Discover, which seems useless for package management, but maybe I have missed somethin.

PS: Anyone have a good media player to recommend for Neon -- without installing Gnome?

[oshunluvr]

That command is wrong. To remove the PPA use the --remove flag, similar to how the PPA was added:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:pcf/miro-releases

or you can install ppa-purge:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

And then remove the PPA and automatically downgrade any packages it provided to packages provided by official repositories:

sudo ppa-purge ppa:pcf/miro-releases

Note that this will uninstall packages provided by the PPA, but not those provided by the official repositories.

You can also remove PPAs by deleting the .list files from /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory.

[claydoh]

You'll need to remove the ppa to get rid of this problem.

Use this command:

sudo ppa-purge ppacf/miro-releases

You can install muon or synaptic. Neon doesn't have a gui package manager in the default setup.

Discover is not a package manager, it is a software browser so it has a different focus than something like Synaptic. I rather like it actually.

For vlc I think there is an option to enable multiple Windows

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/...ple_instances/

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[GreyGeek]

Alternative media players present in the repository:
Totem
Amarok
Dragon
Kaffiene
Kmplayer /Kplayer
mplayer with rosa
snappy
melt

There may be more in the Internet that are not in the repository, using this search:
media players for Kubuntu 16.04 -ubuntu

[claydoh]

You'll need to remove the ppa to get rid of this problem.

Use this command:

sudo ppa-purge ppacf/miro-releases

You can install muon or synaptic. Neon doesn't have a gui package manager in the default setup.

Discover is not a package manager, it is a software browser so it has a different focus than something like Synaptic. I rather like it actually.

For vlc I think there is an option to enable multiple Windows

https://wiki.videolan.org/VLC_HowTo/...ple_instances/

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what was edited in my post??

[Snowhog]

what was edited in my post??

I edited your post to remove the smilie caused by the : between the ppa and cf of your cited command. To do that, you click on the Go Advanced button and check Disable smilies in text.