Target is configured multiple times errors when trying to update

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W: Target Packages (partner/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target DEP-11 (partner/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target DEP-11-icons (partner/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/trusty/Release.gpg: Signature by key C47415DFF48C09645B78609416126D3A3E5C1192 uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1)
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb stable InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target DEP-11 (partner/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target DEP-11-icons (partner/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list:67
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69
W: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:55 and /etc/apt/sources.list:69

Check /etc/apt/sources.list. – mikewhatever Jan 26 '18 at 06:03 — mikewhatever, Jan 26 '18 at 06:03

TelamonAegisthus · Answer 1 · 2018-01-26T07:30:18.927

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First of all lets back up sources.list. This is always a good idea when doing anything that influences this file.

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup

To be extra safe we'll edit a copy of sources.list in our home folder.

We copy sources.list and make sure we are in our home directory :

cp /etc/apt/sources.list ~/ ; cd ~

Awk is a powerful Unix command. I don't understand it very well, but you can always read up on it.

Then we'll use awk to remove the duplicate lines :

awk '!x[$0]++' sources.list > sources-revised.list

We'll check that everything looks alright :

more sources-revised.list

We'll copy it back :

sudo cp sources-revised.list /etc/apt/sources.list

We'll update :

sudo apt-get update

Thanks to Jadu Saikia for the awk knowledge

edited Jan 26 '18 at 07:30

answered Jan 26 '18 at 07:23

TelamonAegisthus

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This approach made no difference for me. – Steve Lautenschlager Nov 19 '21 at 17:36
did the awk command remove the duplicates? what did you see at the step more sources-revised.list? – TelamonAegisthus Nov 20 '21 at 04:17
There are no duplicates in my sources.list file, but I'm still seeing the "configured multiple times" messages. – Steve Lautenschlager Nov 21 '21 at 18:40
What version of Ubuntu and apt are you running? If both versions are supported you may want to 'Report a bug' --> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt – TelamonAegisthus Nov 30 '21 at 00:46

Target is configured multiple times errors when trying to update

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