E: Malformed line 62 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse) E: The list of sources could not be read.

[David Kuntadi]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Steven Vollom
<stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> deb > http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu jaunty main.  If
> this line is causing my problem, what do I do to repair the problem, delete
> it?  And if i delete it, what will happen to the application it is needed for?
>
> This is very interesting stuff.  Thanks!
>
> Steven

Open terminal, and copy and paste below command:

sudo perl -pi -e 's/deb >/deb/g;'  '/etc/apt/sources.list'

After that try sudo apt-get update.

DK