[solved by Snowhog] Duplicated sources?

[Snowhog]

Re: Duplicated sources?

Sorry to hear that.

If I were in this situation, this is what I would do. You have to decide if you want to do this. I don't believe it will do any harm.

Open a console. Type the following commands (best to copy and paste into the console so as to ensure no typos):

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en%5fGB

Assuming you receive no errors (you shouldn't), then type:

sudo apt-get update

This time, you should not receive any warnings.

[birkopf]

Re: Duplicated sources?

Before I will do it - just one question. I realised it all started when I installed medibuntu packages and keyring, etc. to be able to play movies coded for windows and 32bit coded movies. It needs to be something with medibuntu and standard kubuntu packages, but I can't figure it out

[Snowhog]

Re: Duplicated sources?

I doubt that. There are no medibutnu duplicates in either your sources.list or medibutnu.list files.

[birkopf]

Re: Duplicated sources?

Assuming you receive no errors (you shouldn't), then type:

You had a feeling. At first both returned errors that none of folders/files exist. I checked folder and all my files have gb.archive* from mirror server. First one went OK, but second one is returning error

$ sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en%5fGB
rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en%5fGB': No such file or directory

and

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en%5fGB
rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en%5fGB': No such file or directory

After checking folder it doesn't exist there.
At the moment everything looks fine.

[Snowhog]

Re: Duplicated sources?

The shown % in the file name isn't really a percent sign, rather, it represents a space. Copy and paste the following into the console:

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en\ 5fGB
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_i18n_Translation-en\ 5fGB

In the above two commands, the space is 'escaped' using the \ followed by the space.

[birkopf]

Re: Duplicated sources?

Copy and paste the following into the console:

I don't think that will be necessary;-)

After few tests it's all OK. No errors.

Thank you very much for your help & time.

- How did you come to this conclusion... I mean how did you figure out that THIS repository (that you pointed me to) was duplicated ?

[Snowhog]

Re: Duplicated sources?

- How did you come to this conclusion... I mean how did you figure out that THIS repository (that you pointed me to) was duplicated ?

After we eliminated any repository duplicates in the two lists them selves - /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.d/medibuntu.list - the only thing left was the actual warning of duplicates when you ran sudo apt-get update:

Reading package lists... Done
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_b inary-amd64_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/multiverse Translation-en_GB (/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_multiverse_i 18n_Translation-en%5fGB)

At some point, these two files were written to the specified directory - /var/lib/apt/lists - probably during an earlier update that didn't finish properly. These were causing adept to 'see duplicates' and would not complete as a result.