Slow upgrading and downloading

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Mon Jul 4 00:34:22 UTC 2016


On Sunday 03 July 2016 18:43:40 Scott Blair wrote:

> Lately when I have been upgrading or even installing a program, it
> takes 5 to 10 minutes. It just sits there for that time. After awhile
> it then begins the download and install. When installing a program I
> get this error message:
>
> W: Target Packages (universe/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:54 W: Target Packages
> (universe/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:54 W: Target
> Packages (universe/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times
> in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:54 W: Target
> Translations (universe/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple
> times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:54 W:
> Target Translations (universe/i18n/Translation-en) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:54 W: Target Packages
> (multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:28 and /etc/apt/sources.list:54 W: Target
> Packages (multiverse/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple
> times in /etc/apt/sources.list:28 and /etc/apt/sources.list:54 W:
> Target Packages (multiverse/binary-all/Packages) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:28 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:54 W: Target Translations
> (multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:28 and /etc/apt/sources.list:54 W: Target
> Translations (multiverse/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple
> times in /etc/apt/sources.list:28 and /etc/apt/sources.list:54 W:
> Target Packages (restricted/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:7 and /etc/apt/sources.list:58
> W: Target Packages (restricted/binary-i386/Packages) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:7 and /etc/apt/sources.list:58
> W: Target Packages (restricted/binary-all/Packages) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:7 and /etc/apt/sources.list:58
> W: Target Translations (restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US) is
> configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:7 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:58 W: Target Translations
> (restricted/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:7 and /etc/apt/sources.list:58 W: Target
> Packages (restricted/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple
> times in /etc/apt/sources.list:12 and /etc/apt/sources.list:63 W:
> Target Packages (restricted/binary-i386/Packages) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:12 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:63 W: Target Packages
> (restricted/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:12 and /etc/apt/sources.list:63 W: Target
> Translations (restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:12 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:63 W: Target Translations
> (restricted/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:12 and /etc/apt/sources.list:63 W: Target
> Packages (restricted/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple
> times in /etc/apt/sources.list:38 and /etc/apt/sources.list:87 W:
> Target Packages (restricted/binary-i386/Packages) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:38 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:87 W: Target Packages
> (restricted/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:38 and /etc/apt/sources.list:87 W: Target
> Translations (restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:38 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:87 W: Target Translations
> (restricted/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:38 and /etc/apt/sources.list:87 W: Target
> Packages (multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple
> times in /etc/apt/sources.list:38 and /etc/apt/sources.list:87 W:
> Target Packages (multiverse/binary-i386/Packages) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:38 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:87 W: Target Packages
> (multiverse/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:38 and /etc/apt/sources.list:87 W: Target
> Translations (multiverse/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:38 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:87 W: Target Translations
> (multiverse/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:38 and /etc/apt/sources.list:87 W: Target
> Packages (restricted/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple
> times in /etc/apt/sources.list:41 and /etc/apt/sources.list:97 W:
> Target Packages (restricted/binary-i386/Packages) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:41 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:97 W: Target Packages
> (restricted/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:41 and /etc/apt/sources.list:97 W: Target
> Translations (restricted/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:41 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:97 W: Target Translations
> (restricted/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:41 and /etc/apt/sources.list:97 W: Target
> Sources (partner/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:53 and /etc/apt/sources.list:95
> W: Target Packages (partner/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:52 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:94 W: Target Packages
> (partner/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:52 and /etc/apt/sources.list:94 W: Target
> Packages (partner/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in
> /etc/apt/sources.list:52 and /etc/apt/sources.list:94 W: Target
> Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple
> times in /etc/apt/sources.list:52 and /etc/apt/sources.list:94 W:
> Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en) is configured
> multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:52 and
> /etc/apt/sources.list:94
>
>
> Should I go in and edit out the duplicates? Or is it something else?
>
>
> --
>
> Scott Blair:
> Thanks,
>
> Scott Blair
>
My first thought, might not be worth 2 cents, is that the computers time 
is grossly out of whack with the network time.

> USMC Defending your freedoms since 10 November 1775
>
> Save on backup time "BackupDevice=Null"
>
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> feel free to stand in front of them.


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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