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

[John Pierce]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:47 AM, David Kuntadi<d.kuntadi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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Correct, he needs to get rid of the ">" symbol in that source line.

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