multiple google talk "installs" (?) causing errors
I recntly had tried to install a couple programs (google talk mainly I believe) and ran into some problems due to instructions I had recieved not working- now I seem to have problems with updates; I will provide the error message:
Reading package lists... Done W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_ma in_binary-amd64_Packages) W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_ma in_binary-amd64_Packages) W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_ma in_binary-amd64_Packages) W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_ma in_binary-i386_Packages) W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_ma in_binary-i386_Packages) W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable/main i386 Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_ma in_binary-i386_Packages) W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems I did run an update but the same message keeps appearing.... now I am having problems with upgrades.... Thank you in advance for your help (by the way I am using Xubuntu 14.04- I have used linux in the past but am very rusty due to a broken computer, a lot of time taking care of my daughter etc. I am somewhat embarrassed b/c 4 months ago I feel like I could have fixed this myself and hope to go into IT and eventually security- but obviously I am at the very beginning of that path and am just starting to study for the compTIA A+ (although am going through the command line crash course and learn linux the hard way first) |
Open the sources.list with your favorite editor and remove offending lines.
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I found the files to be in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ and indeed there are multiple entries (different google stuff). I went and opened it with nano and a blank screen comes up.
Thank you for your help and sorry to sound like an idiot- there were some months where my computer was broken and I got rusty (I only started using linux last October as well (first Ubuntu, then debian, then manjaro (which broke all the time) and now Xubuntu). Definitely finishing the command line crash course and learn linux the hard way before moving onto trying to study compTIA A+) |
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ls -la /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ |
ls -la /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
total 36 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 8 20:58 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Oct 10 09:47 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Oct 8 20:58 google-chrome.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176 Oct 8 20:58 google-chrome.list.save -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 Oct 8 20:58 google.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 Oct 8 20:58 google.list.save -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298 Oct 8 20:58 google-talkplugin.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 298 Oct 8 20:58 google-talkplugin.list.save -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 154 Oct 8 20:58 webupd8team-y-ppa-manager-trusty.list then cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost. deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost. deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost. deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ### # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost. deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team...manager/ubuntu trusty main # deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team...manager/ubuntu trusty main Sorry about that, I meant when I looked at it in the file manager I saw multiple google talk plugins but then when I opened the terminal and used nano there was nothing there ---------- Post added 10-10-15 at 12:32 PM ---------- I did also try to use nano editor as root.... |
And my workaround was to install google chrome to use the phone in my email account....
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I still think you tried to edit the directory and not the files themselves with "sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d" BTW: I use Pidgin to chat with Hangout/Google Talk users |
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