synaptic errors

[jgw]

I was updating with symantic and got the following errors:
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Packages (partner/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Translations (partner/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target DEP-11 (partner/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target DEP-11-icons (partner/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:50 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xenial-partner.list:4
W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-ubuntu-y-ppa-manager-xenial.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webupd8team-y-ppa-manager-trusty.list:2

Apparently I have multiple configuration files for the same program(s).

Thoughts? (thank you)

[ajgreeny]

I assume you mean synaptic errors and have edited the thread title to accommodate that for you?

Lets see the output of terminal commands
cat /etc/apt/sources.list and then
ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and we can then tell you exactly what needs to be changed.

Please use Code-Tags for terminal output. See my signature below for a How-to

[jgw]

Thanks for the reply. Here are the results:

chelo@chelo-1005HA:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Beta i386 (20150805)]/ trusty main restricted

# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial universe
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates universe

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-updates multiverse

## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ xenial-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security multiverse

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner


chelo@chelo-1005HA:~$ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
atareao-atareao-trusty.list
atareao-atareao-trusty.list.distUpgrade
atareao-atareao-trusty.list.save
diesch-testing-trusty.list
diesch-testing-trusty.list.distUpgrade
diesch-testing-trusty.list.save
jonathonf-ubuntu-mate-1_16-xenial.list
jonathonf-ubuntu-mate-1_16-xenial.list.save
otto-kesselgulasch-gimp-trusty.list
otto-kesselgulasch-gimp-trusty.list.distUpgrade
otto-kesselgulasch-gimp-trusty.list.save
private-ppa.launchpad.net_commercial-ppa-uploaders_steam_ubuntu.list
private-ppa.launchpad.net_commercial-ppa-uploaders_steam_ubuntu.list.distUpgrade
private-ppa.launchpad.net_commercial-ppa-uploaders_steam_ubuntu.list.save
private-ppa.launchpad.net_commercial-ppa-uploaders_tictactoe-wood_ubuntu.list
private-ppa.launchpad.net_commercial-ppa-uploaders_tictactoe-wood_ubuntu.list.distUpgrade
private-ppa.launchpad.net_commercial-ppa-uploaders_tictactoe-wood_ubuntu.list.save
steam.list
steam.list.distUpgrade
steam.list.save
tualatrix-ppa-trusty.list
tualatrix-ppa-trusty.list.distUpgrade
tualatrix-ppa-trusty.list.save
ubuntu-mate-dev-ubuntu-welcome-xenial.list
webupd8team-y-ppa-manager-trusty.list
webupd8team-y-ppa-manager-trusty.list.distUpgrade
webupd8team-y-ppa-manager-trusty.list.save

[ajgreeny]

Your sources.list file is a bit convoluted and needs a clear out so open it as root with command
sudo -H gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and delete any line with the word trusty in it as you are now using xenial.

Similarly you need to remove any of the files in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder that are for trusty, ie,

atareao-atareao-trusty.list
atareao-atareao-trusty.list.distUpgrade
atareao-atareao-trusty.list.save
diesch-testing-trusty.list
diesch-testing-trusty.list.distUpgrade
diesch-testing-trusty.list.save
otto-kesselgulasch-gimp-trusty.list
otto-kesselgulasch-gimp-trusty.list.distUpgrade
otto-kesselgulasch-gimp-trusty.list.save
tualatrix-ppa-trusty.list
tualatrix-ppa-trusty.list.distUpgrade
tualatrix-ppa-trusty.list.save
webupd8team-y-ppa-manager-trusty.list
webupd8team-y-ppa-manager-trusty.list.distUpgrade
webupd8team-y-ppa-manager-trusty.list.save

Finally you should run
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade to finish the procedure properly.

All PPA and non standard repos should be removed before upgrading the distro version as you appear to have done from trusty to xenial, and are supposed to be automatically disabled if you do not remove them manually. However, sometimes the automatic disabling does not happen, which seems to be the case here.

[jgw]

I solved the problem. This was part of my attempt to install mate over unity and I absolutely failed. This being the case (the problems just kept coming) I decided to simply do a clean install of ubuntu mate which made this, for me, no longer pertinent.

I want to thank all those who replied and apologize to you for this whole thing. I should have done this in the first place. Thanks again!

[ajgreeny]

No problem!

If the update problem had been the only one we could quite easily have solved it but as you have now already taken more drastic action that is now a problem overcome.

Thanks for marking as solved. Even though this was really not a solution to your problem it may give a warning to others about multiple DEs on a single OS; some will sit happily side by side but some other combinations can cause problems.