how to fix update problem on ubuntu 16.04

Question

While update I have got error like this

W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured 
multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1

N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable doesn't support architecture 'i386'
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list:1

Solution 1

This happened to me in a recent install, too, but I had installed the Google repository - I see that you have installed it, as well, in your first line...

Navigated to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/.

Edited google.list by invoking sudo nano google.list.

Commented out the source with a #

Saved and ran sudo apt-get update

In case you like to do it in the terminal:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list

#deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

Save and Close the file using Ctrl+X and then Y, and try updating using:

sudo apt-get update

Error solved!

Solution 2

I had the same kind of problem. I go in /etc/sources.list then I open the files concerned by the error.

I saw that a line was repeated and I just removed one of the duplicated lines.

Now I don't have the error anymore.

Comments

[kyrgyz_jigit]

thanks mate for your response . But I have already saw this issue , and I couldn't solve it

[Rahul K Jha]

Open Software & Updates application and go to Other Software tab and uncheck the sources that are added multiple times. After that close and reload cache to update software sources.

[hayd]

Renaming the file/echoing to google-chrome.list worked for me.