Some weeks ago I installed the owncloud client on my Ubuntu system. However, it does not seem to be safe and I want to remove it. I deleted it and apparently it is gone. Unfortunately there is still an persistent entry in the software update. Each time I want to update my system an error aborts everything, because I did not import the public key:

sudo apt-get update
...
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 977C43A8BA684223

I just could import the public key and no error message would annoy me any longer. But I don't want to trust this key, but simply remove everything concerning owncloud.

I've opened /etc/apt/sources.list, but I cannot find . Why? Where does apt-get get his source list? How can I solve this problem?

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If you used the add-apt-repository command, or its alias apt-add-repository, the PPA or source repository can be found in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory.

It can be removed correctly using:

add-apt-repository -r 

I'm not aware of any bad effects from just deleting it from the /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory, but I can't say for certain that there will not be any.

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1. Go to Unity dash and search for Software Sources

2. Go to Other Software and select the desired PPA to be removed.

3. Click Remove

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