Yes, this warning is totally useless because apt-get update won't magically remove the duplicates.
Actually, apt is full of strange messages that are completely unclear to the users (like "you have held broken packages" when nothing is actually being held). This is just one of them. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1012398 Title: Spurious "W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems" when "Duplicate sources.list entry" is only warning To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1012398/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
