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

[Steven Vollom]

On Thursday 13 August 2009 09:15:36 am John Pierce wrote:
> 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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