Problem SOLVED Re: Command line problems. THANKS

[Steven Vollom]

On Thursday 13 August 2009 01:07:26 pm 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 /etc/apt/sources.list 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.
already answered.  Thanks

Steven