Error with installing programme - Package manager error

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I was playing around with a Firefox PWA programme and something went wrong in the install. Now I get an error that something is wrong with the package manager. At the momente I cannot update or upgrade. The error I get is:

E: Conflicting values set for option Signed-By regarding source https://packagecloud.io/filips/FirefoxPWA/any/ any: /etc/apt/keyrings/filips_FirefoxPWA-archive-keyring.gpg != /usr/share/keyrings/firefoxpwa-keyring.gpg
E: The list of sources could not be read.

I have been looking online already and saw it may have something to do with the folders:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d

and

/usr/share/keyrings

In /etc/apt/sources.list.d there are now two items that refer to FirefoxPWA and this may conlict with the keyrings file.

Now I have no idea if that is the case, but either way, I cannot seem to delete any of these files, so I am a bit stuck. What is the best way of simply deleting the whole firefoxPWA thing or another way to solve the issue.

2

Yep, you are on top of it.
You must elevate to root permissions to remove one.

sudo -i

nautilus

then navigate to /etc/apt/sources.list.d

3

Victory!!! Thanks that worked! Can you tell me what is the difference between a basic suco and a sudo -i?

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sudo is SuperUser DO, as in, DO this.

It is a program that manages authentication privileges. The -i tells sudo to elevate login to the Root shell.

You can use sudo -s which will perform the same, but will login to the shell within your Home directory instead of root.

5

thanks again, I just did Sudo, but did not know I needed the -i or -s.

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In post #2 aravisian says:

So you would type sudo -i in that case.

That sudo -i elevation to root command is more often mentioned here on the forum than
sudo -s , which I have not seen before.