<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> The plot thickens with Gutsy now refusing to open "add Remove Programs" or let me enter "Adept Manager", the error message is: "The APT Database could not be opened! This may be caused by incorrect APT configuration or some similar problem. Try running apt-setup and apt-get update in terminal and see if it helps to resolve the problem." In response to this I went to terminal and entered the above, with the result: cpm@cpm-desktop:~$ sudo apt-setup [sudo] password for cpm: sudo: apt-setup: command not found cpm@cpm-desktop:~$ sudo apt-setup adept manager sudo: apt-setup: command not found cpm@cpm-desktop:~$ sudo apt-setup adept sudo: apt-setup: command not found cpm@cpm-desktop:~$ Though I was beginning to get some idea about the processes but with this I'm quite bewildered, It seems to me that the program that enables repairs is off line. Is it a complete reload? Suggestions please? Anton Rolls wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4782DA0C.70600@wilddsl.net.au" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi Clark, John DeCarlo wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I don't know how you changed sources.list, but it looks like a comment line was uncommented. I would try and undo what you did and see what happens. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I agree with John, it looks like it is a missing comment problem. Lines beginning with # are comments. Anything that reads like plain English in these files should be commented. If you show us the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list (and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list , if it exists) then we can tell you easily if there is a misplaced or missing comment. Regards, Anton. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>