Error in the terminal trying to fix an error with synaptic Manager

[liam321 at 123mail.org]

> > I push the reload button in synaptic package manager and now I have this message:
> > W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/restricted Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_edgy-security_restricted_binary-i386_Packages)
> > W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_edgy-security_main_binary-i386_Packages)
> > W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com edgy-security/multiverse Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_edgy-security_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages)
> > 
> > Do I leave it like that or can I do something about it?
> 
> Please post the contents of the file /etc/apt/sources.list. Something
> seems wrong there.
> 

> Hi, again, I think I found the /etc/apt/sources.list.
> 
> 
> meg at meg-desktop:~$ locate /etc/apt/sources.list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/edgy-universe.list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/edgy-commercial.list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/edgy-multiverse.list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/edgy-universe.list.save
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/edgy-commercial.list.save
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/edgy-multiverse.list.save
> /etc/apt/sources.list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.save
> 
> I hope it is what you needed, also while I was looking I found messages
> in /var/log/messages(monitored) - system log Viewer. The trouble is I
> have not idea how to open them and read them. I am thinking that I should
> open them with the shell but didn't find the command yet.

Hi,

Well, to look at the *contents* of the file named sources.list, located
under the directory /etc/apt, you could do for example:

Open a terminal. Navigate to to the directory /etc/apt by typing:

$ cd /etc/apt

(excluding the '$'). Then, to see what files are there:

$ ls

That should show you that there is a file named sources.list there. To
view the contents of that file, you could do for example:

$ cat sources.list

OR

$ gedit sources.list

(The former will just print the content of the file in the terminal. The
latter will open an editor window with the file contents in it).

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By the way, could you also post the contents of the following files

> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/edgy-universe.list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/edgy-commercial.list
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/edgy-multiverse.list

-- I think that could be useful (though I am not sure..). Then we'll be
able to see if there are duplicate entrys in those lists, as suggested
by that error message that Synaptic gives you.


Best Regards

Hugo Heden


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