Software Updater stops and gives error

Bug #799184 reported by Glenn Bartlett
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Ubuntu Tweak
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Bug Description

An unresolvable problem occurred while initializing the package information.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:

'E:Malformed line 61 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse)'

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Ding Zhou (tualatrix) wrote :

Hello, Please edit your sources.list to make it correctly.

If you don't know how to edit, please do by following step:

 1. Open your terminal
 2. run this command:

     sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

 3. Check the line 61 and correct

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Glenn Bartlett (blakkbart) wrote : Re: [Bug 799184] Re: Software Updater stops and gives error

That worked. Thank you so much for the info. I'm new to the Linux
community and everyone I have come in contact has been very helpful.
Thanks again!

Glenn

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 07:42 +0000, Tualatrix Chou wrote:
> Hello, Please edit your sources.list to make it correctly.
>
> If you don't know how to edit, please do by following step:
>
> 1. Open your terminal
> 2. run this command:
>
> sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> 3. Check the line 61 and correct
>

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Ding Zhou (tualatrix) wrote :

You're welcome. :)

Changed in ubuntu-tweak:
status: New → Invalid
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