[SOLVED] Repositories errors

[jave]

Hi
Running LM21 Cinnamon 64bit.

Today I added the Google repositories in order to install Chrome. Now when I update anything from the Update Manager I get the following error:


How do I fix this?

[sleeper12]

Try: Software Sources, Maintenance, Remove duplicate entries.

[jave]

Try: Software Sources, Maintenance, Remove duplicate entries.

Tried that. Still get the same errors.

[tonywhelan]

Try: Software Sources, Maintenance, Remove duplicate entries.

Tried that. Still get the same errors.

You could try backing up your file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list and then editing the original to remove chrome entries.
From a terminal:
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list-BAK
sudo xed /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list
(then remove the chrome entries and save the file and close xed)
sudo apt update

and see if that fixes it.

If you accidentally mess up the editing, just delete the file and rename the backup file to its original name.

[sleeper12]

Agreed, since Software Sources seems to fail to remove the duplicated entries, they need to be removed manually either from additional-repositories or from google-chrome.

[jave]

Thanks. I tried editing the additional-repositories.list file, but discovered it only had one entry???

So I exited and deleted the original file, keeping the old additional-repositories.list.old file, and I'm assuming it won't get picked up and processed?

This is what I have so far:

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jave@ryzen9:/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 12 08:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec  9 07:37 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   55 Dec  8 09:14 additional-repositories.list.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  190 Dec  8 09:15 google-chrome.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  499 Dec  2 08:10 official-package-repositories.list

When I now run a refresh in Update Manager - no errors! I'm assuming Chrome will still get updated as the google-chrome.list file is still there.

[tonywhelan]

<snip>
When I now run a refresh in Update Manager - no errors! I'm assuming Chrome will still get updated as the google-chrome.list file is still there.

Chrome should update just fine. If you're satisfied with the outcome, can you add the word SOLVED to the title of the thread?
cheers.