The Medibuntu Project has come to an end - what do I do now?

Solution 1:

By now almost all the medibuntu packages have been already superseded with packages from the main repos (restricted, universe, multiverse), so the task is to eliminate the traces of medibuntu.

You would probably be better off installing aptitude before hand (see below).

As root, do the following to forget medibuntu:

aptitude purge medibuntu-keyring
rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
aptitude update

Now, to purge the packages which come from medibuntu, do this:

aptitude purge $(dpkg-query -W -f='${PackageSpec}\t${Maintainer}\n' '*' |\
  grep [email protected] |\
  cut -f1)

You might have to select an alternative dependency problem resolution (e.g., aptitude might suggest that you remove a 100 packages if you purge a medibuntu library libavutil; say no and it will offer to install the same library from an alternative source).

This means that you will probably be better off using aptitude than apt-get for this task because the former offers the alternatives for dependency problem resolution. See also

• Aptitude vs. apt-get: Which is the recommended (aka the “right”) tool to use?
• Is aptitude still considered superior to apt-get?