[ubuntu-studio-users] Update question, untrusted packages
Ralf Mardorf
ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net
Wed Aug 21 18:57:57 UTC 2013
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 17:27 +0200, Pablo Fernandez wrote:
> PPA repositories' lines are not in /etc/apt/sources.list. They are, as
> plain text files, ending with ".list" under
> the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory.
>
>
> A more appropiate command to see the repos is:
>
> cat /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
>
>
> Or, to print just the active repos (all of them), filter out the lines
> that are commented out:
>
>
> cat /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* | grep -v "#"
>
>
> You can comment out lines if you edit these files but I suggest you
> should use Software Center or Synaptic to enable / disable repos.
>
>
> In my experience, multiverse and universe are trustworthy repos and
> most PPA's too. That said, I disable PPA's after installing some
> packages that I want to have more up to date.
Oops, than Pete can ignore my previous mail regarding to "partners" and
"restricted" :D.
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