[Bug 1159149] Re: COULD NOT INITIALIZE THE PACKAGE INFORMATION

MAXWELL BRYANT STOUT maxwellstout at gmail.com
Sat Mar 23 19:00:19 UTC 2013


Hello

After entering "cat /etc/apt/sources.list | sed -n '46p'" and hitting
<ENTER> I received the following:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/precise partner

which I copied and pasted in your email below.

Thank you for your attentions given my problem.

Max Stout

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Philip Wyett <
philip.wyett at cohere-tech.co.uk> wrote:

> Can you open a terminal and enter the following command then hit <ENTER>
> and copy and paste the output here. deb
> http://archive.canonical.com/precise partner
>
> cat /etc/apt/sources.list | sed -n '46p
>
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>
> Title:
>   COULD NOT INITIALIZE THE PACKAGE INFORMATION
>
> Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   i WAS DIRECTED TO REPORT THIS PROBLEM TO THE UPDATE MANAGER AND
>   INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LINE:
>
>   'E:Malformed line 46 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist
>   parse)'
>
>   i HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT TO DO NEXT, IF ANYTHING. I REPORTED THIS PROBLE
>   EARLIER. I EXPECTED TO GET A NOTICE OF SOMETHING. I HAVE HEARD
>   NOTHING.
>
>   MAX STOUT
>
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Title:
  COULD NOT INITIALIZE THE PACKAGE INFORMATION

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  i WAS DIRECTED TO REPORT THIS PROBLEM TO THE UPDATE MANAGER AND
  INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING LINE:

  'E:Malformed line 46 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist
  parse)'

  i HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT TO DO NEXT, IF ANYTHING. I REPORTED THIS PROBLE
  EARLIER. I EXPECTED TO GET A NOTICE OF SOMETHING. I HAVE HEARD
  NOTHING.

  MAX STOUT

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