Aptivi<p><strong>Old Nitrocid KS PPA to be removed June 15th</strong></p><p>Earlier, we have posted <a href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/old-nitrocid-ppa-eol-reminder/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a new article</a> that announced the deprecation of the old Launchpad PPA for Nitrocid KS. This PPA was originally released on June 8th, 2020, when we were building Nitrocid KS (Kernel Simulator back then) 0.0.10.0 back then for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa users.</p><p>The old Nitrocid KS PPA, <a href="https://launchpad.net/~eofla/+archive/ubuntu/kernel-sim" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><code>kernel-sim</code></a>, will be officially removed from Launchpad <strong>on June 15th, 2025</strong>. You’ll have exactly a week to change your APT sources to use the new Launchpad PPA for Nitrocid KS, which is <a href="https://launchpad.net/~eofla/+archive/ubuntu/nitrocid" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><code>nitrocid</code></a>.</p><p>To disable the <code>kernel-sim</code> PPA and to enable the newer Nitrocid PPA, <a href="https://launchpad.net/~eofla/+archive/ubuntu/nitrocid" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><code>nitrocid</code></a>, follow these steps:</p><ol><li>Uninstalling all Nitrocid-related packages from the old PPA<ol><li>Open the terminal emulator</li><li>Run <code>sudo apt purge kernel-simulator</code></li></ol></li><li>Replacing the <code>kernel-sim</code> PPA with the <code>nitrocid</code> PPA<ol><li>Run <code>sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:eofla/kernel-sim</code></li><li>Run <code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eofla/nitrocid</code></li></ol></li><li>Installing the newer Nitrocid packages<ol><li>Execute <code>sudo apt update</code></li><li>Follow the instructions by running <code>sudo apt install nitrocid</code></li></ol></li></ol><p>Once you follow the above steps, you’re now using the new <code>nitrocid</code> PPA instead of the older one. If you failed to remove the <code>kernel-sim</code> PPA from your system before the abovementioned deadline, the <code>apt update</code> command will fail with error messages about said PPA.</p><p><span></span></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/kernel-simulator/" target="_blank">#KernelSimulator</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/launchpad-ppa/" target="_blank">#LaunchpadPPA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/news/" target="_blank">#news</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/nitrocid/" target="_blank">#nitrocid</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/nitrocid-kernel/" target="_blank">#NitrocidKernel</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/nitrocid-kernel-simulator/" target="_blank">#NitrocidKernelSimulator</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/nitrocid-ks/" target="_blank">#NitrocidKS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/nitrocidks/" target="_blank">#NitrocidKS</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/ppa/" target="_blank">#PPA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/simulator/" target="_blank">#Simulator</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/tech/" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/ubuntu/" target="_blank">#Ubuntu</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/ubuntu-ppa/" target="_blank">#UbuntuPPA</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/tag/update/" target="_blank">#update</a></p>