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I am using Ubuntu 11.10. I was using GIMP 2.6 from the repo but I read that GIMP 2.7 has merged windows, I wish I hadn't but I wondered it and added the following PPA: matthaeus123/mrw-gimp-svn



After that it required me to add two other repos:



GIMP 2.7.5 Will not work with the current glib and gtk in Oneiric. To fix the problem install these repos



deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu oneiric main



deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu oneiric main



I added those PPAs and in somewhere a pop-up with "partial-update" appeared I applied the update and restarted Ubuntu. After the restart, my theme was a little bit changed, when I right-click the color is not gray but white and most importantly I am not able to reach:




  • Software Sources, when clicked it looks as if opening and then closes.


  • sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list doesn't work, because my Gedit doesn't work.


  • Preferences in Nautilus, when clicked it closes Nautilus.




I would like to revert everything I updated. I would like to downgrade/remove the packages ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 and ppa:ricotz/testing PPAs but I am unable to do it.



So, I am stuck. How do I restore everything?


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I have found the solution!



As @solomenikmi said, I applied these commands:



sudo apt-get install ppa-purge    



sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3    

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/testing


However, it did not solve the problem related to Themes and applications. So, I started searching and while searching I found a solution and applied the following:



sudo apt-get remove libgtk-3-common

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

sudo reboot


It seemed as if everything worked well; however, that solution was proposed for Ubuntu 11.04 but I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and it messed up the system again! This time, I was not even able to reach to login screen of Ubuntu, after I press the power button of my laptop, the start-up was freezing at Checking battery state... [ OK ]. After searching again, I applied those following commands:



sudo apt-get install lightdm-gtk-greeter

sudo apt-get install unity-greeter

sudo reboot


And that was it. I succeeded to return to the state where my themes and applications work just like before installing GIMP 2.7.5!


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