[ubuntu-uk] Malformed line 55

[Alan Pope]

On 3 May 2010 12:43, Anthony Coyle <coyle.anthony at gmail.com> wrote:
> On running sudo apt-get I still got malformed line 55 in sources list
>

It's quite self-explanatory really. Line 55 of the file
/etc/apt/sources.list makes no sense to apt-get.

You probably pasted a line in and it was either truncated, split over
multiple lines or in some other way broken.

Simply do the following:-

ALT+F2
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

In the text editor scroll down to line 55. The line should either
start with a hash symbol indicating a comment, or the word "deb" or
"deb-src". It may be that its a continuation of the line above.

To fix it you need to know what the line should be.
Let us know what you have. You could also copy and paste the entire
file from the editor into http://paste.ubuntu.com/ and let us have the
link so we can look at it.

Cheers,
Al.