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work like a charm

Worked for me too.

David F thanks for automating the detection/deactivation of duplicates. I am a total newbie - tried python3 apt-remove-duplicate-source-entries.py in dash stored on my Desktop
but got python3: can't open file 'apt-remove-duplicate-source-entries.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory I know I am doing smth wrong but exactly what? Ty

@CarnedeTun Your problem is in the error message.

No such file or directory

You're either in the wrong directory when you attempt to execute the script or you named it something different from what you're trying to execute

@baudday thanks

I tried to run
/home/omegatron/Desktop/apt-remove-duplicate-source-entries.py

And it gave me this:
`omegatron@omegatron-Satellite-C655D:~$ /home/omegatron/Desktop/apt-remove-duplicate-source-entries.py
Overlapping source entries:

1. /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src http://ubuntu.mirrors.linux.ro/archive/ xenial main restricted #Added by software-properties
2. /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src http://ubuntu.mirrors.linux.ro/archive/ xenial main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties
   I disabled the latter entry.

1 source entries were disabled:

deb-src http://ubuntu.mirrors.linux.ro/archive/ xenial main multiverse universe #Added by software-properties

Do you want to save these changes? (y/N)
omegatron@omegatron-Satellite-C655D:~$
`

But when I tried sudo apt-get update it still gave me this:
W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7 W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list:7
Thanks again for any additional help.

on running
sudo python3 apt-remove-duplicate-source-entries.py
showing error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "apt-remove-duplicate-source-entries.py", line 8, in <module>
    import aptsources.sourceslist
ImportError: No module named 'aptsources'

please suggest what to do

@yashhsethiya You are probably missing python-apt package.

sudo apt-get install python-apt

thanks, works fine, but runs as:

sudo python3 apt-remove-duplicate-source-entries.py

works for me... awesome

Thanks, works on Ubuntu 16.04

on Ubuntu 16.04 I get this result:
$ sudo python3 apt-remove-duplicate-source-entries.py
No duplicated entries were found.

[ But the following still happens... ]

$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_ZA) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (universe/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (universe/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (universe/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Translations (universe/i18n/Translation-en_ZA) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Translations (universe/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target DEP-11 (universe/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target DEP-11-icons (universe/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (main/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (main/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (main/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en_ZA) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Translations (main/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target DEP-11 (main/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target DEP-11-icons (main/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:5 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (universe/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (universe/binary-i386/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Packages (universe/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Translations (universe/i18n/Translation-en_ZA) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target Translations (universe/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target DEP-11 (universe/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55
W: Target DEP-11-icons (universe/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:18 and /etc/apt/sources.list:55

@SnaasebKram: Could you please file an issue report and provide a link to your /etc/apt/sources.list? The comparison for duplicate entries is not perfect because I'm not exactly sure what entries Apt considers equal but a sample like yours would help tweaking that.

@yashhsethiya: You need to install the python3-apt package. The most recent release makes that clearer.