Installation • Re: “Warning: Target” “configured multiple times” in sources lists

I'm afraid I went ahead and ran sudo apt modernize-sources, (did a restart though probably unnecessary), then sudo apt update, and now there is an even Longer list of "Warning: Target..." messages. Then I ran the two sources list commands, and here are those results :

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
cat: /etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory


Then : $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie trixie-updates
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Enabled: yes
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

Types: deb deb-src
URIs: https://security.debian.org/debian-security
Suites: trixie-security
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Enabled: yes
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie
Components: main non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://security.debian.org/debian-security/
Suites: trixie-security
Components: main non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb deb-src
URIs: http://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie-updates
Components: main non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

[End of terminal text]

In case it's helpful, here are the first 7 of the current Warning messages, (to be followed by the first 7 from before the Modernization) :

Warning: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:3
Warning: Target Sources (non-free-firmware/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:3
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:3
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:3
Warning: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:3
Warning: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:3
Warning: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:3

The first 7 Warning messages from before the Modernization :

Warning: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:4 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1
Warning: Target Sources (non-free-firmware/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:4 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1
Warning: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1
Warning: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1
Warning: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1
Warning: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:3 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.sources:1

Statistics: Posted by TechTerrorized — 2025-12-26 23:40

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