W: Target Packages configured multiple times [solved]

[sethrewha]

I'm rather new to Linux (I've made the full switch just recently and left Microsoft in the dust.)
When I refreshed my update manager today it threw some rather odd errors. As I'm still getting my bearings I don't want to mess anything up.

W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:2
W: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:2
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:2
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:2
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:2
W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:2
W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:2
W: Target CNF (main/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:2
W: Target CNF (main/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list:2

Does anyone know how to correct this? I'm not even sure why it happened...

[karlchen]

Hello, sethrewha.

Each warning line states that there is a duplicated entry in the software source file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list.

Therefore the solution is by
+ identifying each duplicated line the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list
+ removing all duplicates, so that each line in the file will be unique.

In case you need help identifying the duplicated entries, please, post the content of the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list by executing the terminal command

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cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list

and pasting the complete screen output, which the command displays.

Regards,
Karl

[sethrewha]

Thanks for the reply! Terminal returned this:

deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main
deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main

The one to remove seem rather obvious
Wouldn't happen to know how to do that would you? I found the file but I need root permission to save it.

[karlchen]

Hello, sethrewha.

On Linux Mint, you can use the application "Software Sources" in order to delete one of the 2 entries from "additional-repositories".

Alternative approach, using a text editor with root permissions:
You can execute the commandline

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sudoedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/additional-repositories.list

in order to edit the file with root permissions and to delete the duplicated line.

HTH,
Karl

[sethrewha]

That sorted it out! Thank you so much!!

[karlchen]

You're welcome.