Re: Where is this deb.opera.com repository still coming from?
Tech Geek wrote :
> I was under the impression that whenever you run apt-get update it reads
> the repositories listed in /etc/apt/sources.list file and fetches the
> contents of it but apparently something else is going on too...
>
> So somtime back I added the following line in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
> # Opera Browser Repository
> deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ stable non-free
>
> and then installed opera browser from it:
> apt-get update; apt-get install opera
>
> Now after sometime I removed the opera repository line from sources.list
> (but the package is still installed) and then when I ran apt-get update,
> I still saw apt-get trying to read the opera repository like this:
[... snip]
> Not sure what is happening and from where apt-get is still seeing the
> opera repo line.
>
> I have always use apt-get.
>
> Thanks
Hi, look into /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ , Opera (and others) used to put
their own repo there upon installation.
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