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Purpose

Detects and interactively deactivates duplicate Apt source entries and deletes sources list files without valid enabled source entries in /etc/sources.list and /etc/sources.list.d/*.list.

Prerequisites

TL;DR: Have a supported Ubuntu or other Debian-based system and install a couple of Python packages:

sudo apt install python3-apt python3-regex

For details see below.

Mandatory

  • Python 3.4+

  • The aptsources module. In Debian-based distribution you can find it in the python3-apt package.

Optional

  • The regex module for improved (non-European) language support. Package name: python3-regex.

Download / Installation

Option 1: Python ZIP application

  1. Download the ZIP application bundle:

  2. Mark it as executable through your file manager or the command-line:

    chmod a+x aptsources-cleanup.pyz

Option 2: From source

Alternatively, you can download the source code and run it in Python (albeit without translations).

Usage

  • From a ZIP application bundle:

    sudo ./aptsources-cleanup.pyz

  • From source code:

    sudo ./aptsources-cleanup

For a (slightly more) detailed description and individual command-line options see the output of

./aptsources-cleanup.pyz --help

or

./aptsources-cleanup --help

depending on the deployment type.