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I only enabled "main" and "universe" repos, but still proprietary software like "steam" are enabled and shown in the list, how can I remove them?


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I think that you are confused in this sense. First, if you want keep enabled only main and universe repositories, check your /etc/apt/sources.list to look something like this:



##
## ...comments...
##
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring main universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security universe main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu raring-updates universe main


Then, from terminal, run the following command:



sudo apt-get update


to resynchronize the package index files from their sources.



After all of these are done, if you still have doubts that a certain package is from proprietary sources, you can check with the following command:



apt-cache madison package_name


For example:



$ apt-cache madison firefox
firefox | 23.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 | http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-security/main amd64 Packages
firefox | 23.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates/main amd64 Packages
firefox | 20.0+build1-0ubuntu2 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages
$ apt-cache madison wallch
wallch | 3.01-0ubuntu2 | http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/universe amd64 Packages

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