oldefoxx
October 31st, 2015, 09:49 PM
I do "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade; sudo apt-get autoremove" in a terminal window daily to keep my Ubuntu 14.04 install up to date. Actually you can do it with any Debian distro, and I've been doing it since Ubuntu 8.04 and will keep doing it.
But while the update process works fine (except that apt does not know about chromium and Ubuntu Software Center does, while USC does not know about cream and apt does),
I'm getting warnings from apt now on the screen that are not being put there by stdout or stderr. I know because I cannot redirect them to a file.
Anyway, here is a copy&paste from the terminal screen:
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/restricted amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_main_binary-i386_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/restricted i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_restricted_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
A quick look shows that i386 packages are getting mixed in there. That's 32-bit, and I am running 64-bit now. I did install a magnifier program that would not run because it required a library that was not available via the normal channels, and the only found resources were 32-bit. I don't want to mix 32-bit code with 64-bit if I can help it, and besides, I found that the dconf-editor, gnome-tweak-tool, and unity-tweak-tool will together give you access to most cases of picking a font and size to improve readability. Other than that, you have to see if the applications give you settings you can change, a zoom feature, or instructions online on how to change their settings. I no longer need a screen magnifier at all.
What bugs me though is that the bold, underscored "fix" is no fix at all. Every time around. I get the same warnings. So how do I fix this?
I've run "sudo apt-get update" separately, and it is not a help either. I've also run sudo "apt-get upgrade" and that was no help.
But while the update process works fine (except that apt does not know about chromium and Ubuntu Software Center does, while USC does not know about cream and apt does),
I'm getting warnings from apt now on the screen that are not being put there by stdout or stderr. I know because I cannot redirect them to a file.
Anyway, here is a copy&paste from the terminal screen:
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/restricted amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_restricted_binary-amd64_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_main_binary-i386_Packages)
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/restricted i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_trusty-security_restricted_binary-i386_Packages)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
A quick look shows that i386 packages are getting mixed in there. That's 32-bit, and I am running 64-bit now. I did install a magnifier program that would not run because it required a library that was not available via the normal channels, and the only found resources were 32-bit. I don't want to mix 32-bit code with 64-bit if I can help it, and besides, I found that the dconf-editor, gnome-tweak-tool, and unity-tweak-tool will together give you access to most cases of picking a font and size to improve readability. Other than that, you have to see if the applications give you settings you can change, a zoom feature, or instructions online on how to change their settings. I no longer need a screen magnifier at all.
What bugs me though is that the bold, underscored "fix" is no fix at all. Every time around. I get the same warnings. So how do I fix this?
I've run "sudo apt-get update" separately, and it is not a help either. I've also run sudo "apt-get upgrade" and that was no help.