[ubuntu-uk] Error during update - duplicate entries

[Neil Greenwood]

On 3 June 2010 20:06, Dianne Reuby <pramclub at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm getting this error on update:
> W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/
> lucid/partner Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_partner_binary-i386_Packages)
>
> I've looked at my sources.list file and can only see one entry for te
> partner repo:
>
> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
> ## 'partner' repository.
> ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and
> the
> ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
> deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
> # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu lucid partner
>
> Should that be commented out? I haven't edited the file since doing a
> clean install of 10.04
>
> TIA
> Dianne
>
>
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You should also take a look inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d

Files in that directory (they possibly need a '.list' suffix, I've not
really tested this) also get added as repositories.


Hope this helps.

Neil.