[ubuntu-uk] Duplicate sources list

Alan Lord (News) alanslists at gmail.com
Tue May 1 08:11:59 UTC 2012


On 01/05/12 08:58, scoundrel50a wrote:
> I use the terminal to update and dist upgrade, and since I reinstalled
> my kernal, I now have duplicate sources.list errors showing which stop
> the terminal from updating, it tells me in the panel that there updates
> but I can only update using update manager.....
>
> this is one of the errors
>
> W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
> precise/universe amd64 Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_universe_binary-amd64_Packages)

I had that too.

If you look at the Software Sources manager (from the Edit menu of the 
Software Centre) you will see two that are basically the same. I just 
removed one of them.

HTH

Al

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