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What is sources.list? Is it like 'registry?'

How important is it it to keep it 'clean?'

When I did

sudo apt-get update

the last lines to display were these:

W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ raring/partner amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_raring_partner_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ raring/partner i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_raring_partner_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Do I need to eliminate these?

If so, do I just find that file, back it up, and use gedit to edit?

Edit for Erik:

/etc/apt/sources.list:## 'partner' repository.
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner
/etc/apt/sources.list:# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner
/etc/apt/sources.list:## 'partner' repository.
/etc/apt/sources.list:deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner
/etc/apt/sources.list:# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:## 'partner' repository.
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:## 'partner' repository.
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner
/etc/apt/sources.list.save:# deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu raring partner

Thanks Eric!

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    Basicly, you have to search for duplicate lines in "/etc/apt/sources.list" and any ".list" file inside "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/". Please, include in your question the output of grep -iR partner /etc/apt/sources.list* – Eric Carvalho May 07 '13 at 01:51

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