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Today I tried to update so I entered sudo apt update through the terminal. However it returned with

The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/thopiekar/pygame/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.

So I tried to update with

sudo apt update --allow-unauthenticated

However that still didn't work so I decided to uninstall pygame with

python3 -m pip uninstall pygame --user

Python returned with

Usage:
/usr/bin/python3 -m pip uninstall [options] ... /usr/bin/python3 -m pip uninstall [options] -r ... no such option: --user

Is there something I am doing wrong?

xenuvelo
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  • Are you trying to update or uninstall? How did you install it originally? Where are you coming up with these commands? – Nmath Mar 22 '21 at 19:03
  • @Nmath 1. I'm trying to uninstall pygame, i don't really code much 2. I installed it with pip. 3. I just searched each error and tried a solution. – xenuvelo Mar 22 '21 at 19:09
  • There are a few problems here. First, apt update only updates the list of available software. You have to use apt upgrade if you actually want to upgrade packages to the current version. Second, your system updates are broken. See: What can I do if a repository/PPA does not have a Release file?. But neither of these things have anything to do with uninstalling software installed with pip – Nmath Mar 22 '21 at 22:38
  • to uninstall most software that you install with pip install packagename you need only to use the command pip uninstall packagename. Is there some problem when you use this command? – Nmath Mar 22 '21 at 22:39

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