Command line problems.

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:07:26 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:

> Steven Vollom wrote:
>> When I attempt to install anything, I get an error that line 52 is
>> malformed. When I attempt to open Kate to read line 52 of
>> /etc/apt/sources.lst, it opens in Kate with no data in the page.
>>   
>>   
> That's to be expected.  Why?  Because you're using the wrong filename!
> The correct path/filename should be " not
> /etc/apt/sources.lst.  When you started Kate with the filename
> /etc/apt/sources.lst you told it the wrong filename so Kate thought you
> were creating a new file because it did not find an exact match for the
> filename you had specified.  Another thing to watch out for is
> capitalization.  To Linux THISfile, Thisfile and thisfile would all be
> seen as separate files because of the use, or absence of capital letters
> in the filename.

True. That said, Steven recently had problems with the file 
"/boot/grub/menu.lst", and now had problems with the file
"/etc/apt/sources.list" . Two different extensions for a list of grub 
stanza's and a list of software sources ;)

    -Frans