Synaptic and Picasa

[William Grant]

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The Wassermans wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 05:25 +1000, Null Ack wrote:
>> Download the deb file (be it x86 or x64) from:
>>
>> http://picasa.google.com/linux/download.html
> 
> I did that.  It downloaded and then I got this error message:
> 
> "This is a major failure of your software management system. Please
> check for broken packages with synaptic, check the file permissions and
> correctness of the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' and reload the software
> information with: 'sudo apt-get update' and 'sudo apt-get install -f'."
> 
> I don't quite understand what to do.

This is because of the sources.list problem - we'll fix that below.

>> And double click it to install
>>
>> Why did you edit your sources file? I would revert that to fixup your sources
> 
> I followed some instructions I found on the web.  Obviously wrong thing
> to do.  But how do I revert to fix up my Sources?

It looks like you saved an HTML file as a sources.list entry - that was
never going to work. To recover, remove the file
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list.

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William Grant
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