uninstall youtube-viewer (ppa)

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.