I have installed the Nvidia proprietary driver, (at least as far as a ‘modesetting’ step that brought a ‘permission denied’, asked about elsewhere in the Forums), after doing a clean install of Debian 13 ‘Trixie’, (with the Gnome desktop), but in following the preliminary steps, in the Debian Wiki instructions of what has to be done before installing the Nvidia proprietary drivers, ever since the update-upgrade after running
‘sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources’
when I do ‘sudo apt update’ ‘sudo apt upgrade’ in the terminal, after it says ‘All packages are up to date’, a LONG list follows, of lines saying :
“Warning: Target” (and then either “Sources”, “Packages”, “Translations”, “DEP-11”, “DEP-11-icons”, or “DEP-11-icons-small”, and then, in parentheses, a location, ) “is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:” (and a number) “and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:” (and a number)
(By ‘LONG list’ I mean, when the readout was copied and pasted into a LibreOffice Writer document, [font size 12 point, spacing 1.5], it came to 15 pages, and those warning lines covered 7 of those pages.)
From what I have found, here and in other forums or webpages, this may not be as important as it would seem, but the remedies given are sorta beyond my technical and confidence levels. Is there perhaps a simple fix that I’m missing, one that would correct it all at once rather than one line at a time?
‘sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources’
when I do ‘sudo apt update’ ‘sudo apt upgrade’ in the terminal, after it says ‘All packages are up to date’, a LONG list follows, of lines saying :
“Warning: Target” (and then either “Sources”, “Packages”, “Translations”, “DEP-11”, “DEP-11-icons”, or “DEP-11-icons-small”, and then, in parentheses, a location, ) “is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:” (and a number) “and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:” (and a number)
(By ‘LONG list’ I mean, when the readout was copied and pasted into a LibreOffice Writer document, [font size 12 point, spacing 1.5], it came to 15 pages, and those warning lines covered 7 of those pages.)
From what I have found, here and in other forums or webpages, this may not be as important as it would seem, but the remedies given are sorta beyond my technical and confidence levels. Is there perhaps a simple fix that I’m missing, one that would correct it all at once rather than one line at a time?
Statistics: Posted by TechTerrorized — 2025-12-25 21:25