Remove repo from Raspbian

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I have a repo that causes an error to appear whenever i update or install anything.

How can i remove it?

Error message

W: Failed to fetch http://repo.offensive-security.com/dist/bt4/binary/en_GB  Unable to connect to repo.offensive-security.com:http:

score 21 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 25 '17 at 09:10

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What worked for me:

Check your /etc/apt/sources.list and remove unwanted sources.
```
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
```
If step 1 does not solve your problem, see what other sources are used:
```
sudo ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
```
If you have found a source-list causing the problem, remove it (in the example below, NodeJS source list is removed):
```
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
```

edited Oct 25 '17 at 09:10

Quintin Balsdon

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answered Oct 24 '17 at 22:15

Artur Barseghyan

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Things hide in so many logical places. Remembering them all is why we're here! Thank you! – Joel Huebner Sep 15 '22 at 14:52

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 23 '14 at 15:53

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To change the apt repository list you need to edit /etc/apt/sources.list.

If this answer does not solve your problem, please edit your question and paste the content of /etc/apt/sources.list.

Use sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list in the terminal and then delete the lines corresponding to the unwanted repository.

edited Sep 23 '14 at 15:53

RPiAwesomeness

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answered Sep 23 '14 at 15:32

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Worked great thank you, going to edit your answer to help others with same problem. – Dan Cundy Sep 23 '14 at 15:41
You can also edit out the line in /etc/apt/sources.list by using # In case you want to re-use it later. – Harry Jun 18 '16 at 11:08

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 08 '18 at 15:30

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OK THis is major: If you are unable to download the Pi2 version, edit (Nano) the list file(s) in etc/apt/sources.list.d folder. THere will be an line YOU MUST CHANGE to get the files into your repository. "arch=amd64" MUST BE CHANGED TO "arch=armhf". THen check the repository list with "sudo apt-cache policy AppNameHere". If you dont have the names of the downloads, you've done it wrong.

answered Dec 08 '18 at 15:30

paul tast

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