i installed youtube-viewer as per the documentation: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
now i don't want it, but:
removing it as suggested here does not work: sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
it is not listed in software and updates where it might be removed as suggested here:
is it true that "When installed directly from the source (as opposed to building it as a package and installing it with the package manager), I'm afraid [manually deleting the files] is the best option"?
thus: ppa should generally be avoided if it's such a hassle to remove, or this is an unusual case?
1 Answer
If you installed the software via the PPA, you can uninstall it like this:
sudo apt remove --purge youtube-viewer
The commands you had in your question will remove the repository where the application came from, but not the application itself.
