manage PPA via terminal

Question

I was searching for a way to manage my repositories in an advanced way and I found y-ppa-manager GUI application. it is a great application, that's for sure. But is there a way to manage them via *terminal?

Like backup current repos to some kind of file, restoring them from a file. Other words is there a smiler application to y-ppa-manager on terminal?

What do you mean by "manage my repositories"? You can add or remove a repository form a terminal. Is that the question? — Pilot6, Apr 17 '16 at 21:11
And http://askubuntu.com/questions/217179/how-to-add-ppa-repositories — muru, Apr 17 '16 at 21:16
And http://askubuntu.com/questions/28644/how-can-i-backup-my-ppas — muru, Apr 17 '16 at 21:45

Pilot6 · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-17T21:31:57.940

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You can add a repository by add-apt-repostory command, e.g.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi

You can remove a repository by add-apt-repostory -r, e.g.

sudo add-apt-repository -r ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi

You can also purge all packages installed from a repository by ppa-purge. You will need to install it first

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

Then use it this way

sudo ppa-purge ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi

The command will purge all the packages and revert them to the previous ones from the standard repos, if anything has been upgraded from the PPA.

To backup repository lists you can backup the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory. The lists are stored there.

edited Apr 17 '16 at 21:31

answered Apr 17 '16 at 21:13

Pilot6

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first thank for your answer, but i'm searching for some features like back-upping, restoring.. – 0x0584 Apr 17 '16 at 21:17
Backuping, restoring what? – Pilot6 Apr 17 '16 at 21:18
the list of ppa's – 0x0584 Apr 17 '16 at 21:20
It is not very clear. Can you elaborate your question by editing the QUESTION. – Pilot6 Apr 17 '16 at 21:21
@010010001 I added a backup tip. – Pilot6 Apr 17 '16 at 21:32

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