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[R. Wood]

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Allegedly, on Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 06:59:44PM -0800, Laurie Bell stated:
> laurie at bouduin-desktop:~$ cd /etc/apt
> laurie at bouduin-desktop:/etc/apt$ ls -l
> total 28
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-25 12:55 apt.conf.d
> -rw------- 1 root root    0 2007-10-15 19:18 secring.gpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3108 2007-12-21 19:16 sources.list
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-15 16:40 sources.list.d
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3048 2007-11-25 14:45 sources.list.save
> -rw------- 1 root root 1200 2007-10-15 19:18 trustdb.gpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2393 2007-10-15 19:18 trusted.gpg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2381 2007-10-15 19:18 trusted.gpg~
> laurie at bouduin-desktop:/etc/apt$ echo $path
> 
> laurie at bouduin-desktop:/etc/apt$ 
> 
> urie at bouduin-desktop:~$ echo $path
> 
> laurie at bouduin-desktop:~$ 
> 
> 
> Echo does nothing.Am I doing Something wrong?

With linux, case/CASE matters :-0

You need
  $PATH
not
  $path

Secondly, it may be easier for you to re-create your /etc/apt/sources.list
file (as suggested by a previous post), rather than actually edit the file,
and fix the error on whatever line # was specified.

Good luck,
Raymond
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