edit source list /etc/apt/sources.list

[David McGlone]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008 11:31:10 pm uriah heep wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:22 PM, <lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  Showing us the error  would help a lot.
> >
> >
> >
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> > Lindsay Mathieson
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> >
> >
> > --- Original message ---
> > Subject: edit source list /etc/apt/sources.list
> > From: uriah heep <stan10x10 at gmail.com>
> > To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Date: 03/12/2008 2:29 AM
> >
> > Some how I got an error on a line in sources.list which is causing apt
> > and synaptic not to work.  I need to to know how to remove the error.  I
> > am quite new at this and quite ignorant.
> >
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> > Here it is
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> E: Type 'wget' is not known on line 37 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list
> E: The list of sources could not be read.
> Go to the repository dialog to correct the problem.
> E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
>
> From the little I know it seems I need to delete the error line but i do
> not know how to edit the file.

At first don't delete it, just comment it out by putting a " # " in front of 
the line that you think needs deleting. If everything works Ok then delete it.

by looking at sources list, you should be able to figure out the line format 
and distinguish what belongs and what doesn't
-- 
David M.
http://www.dmcentral.net